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get back at

get back at

 
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get
part of speech: phrase
definition: to do something bad or unpleasant to (someone) in return for something bad or unpleasant that this person has done to one previously.
By playing that trick on him, she was getting back at him for the trick he'd played on her last year.He pledged to get back at the judge who sentenced him to prison.