گزارش خطا در معنی کلمه 'an eye for an eye'

1 general:: Punishment in which the offender suffers what the victim has suffered, exact retribution, as in Joe believed in an eye for an eye; stealing his client would have to be avenged. This idiom is a quotation from the Bible, which has "Life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth" (Deuteronomy 19:21); the idea is contradicted in the New Testament (see TURN THE OTHER CHEEK).

2 general:: see EYE FOR AN EYE.