还击 (還擊)
huán jī
Pinyin
Definition
还击 (還擊)
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- to hit back
- to return fire
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
以其人之道,还治其人之身
- 1 to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game
- 2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine
以卵击石
- 1 lit. to strike a stone with egg (idiom); to attempt the impossible
- 2 to invite disaster by overreaching oneself
以眼还眼
- 1 an eye for an eye (idiom); fig. to use the enemy's methods against him
- 2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine
以眼还眼,以牙还牙
- 1 an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (idiom)
- 2 fig. to use the enemy's methods against him
- 3 to give sb a taste of his own medicine
借尸还魂
- 1 lit. reincarnated in sb else's body (idiom); fig. a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise