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pay sb back phrasal verb
phrasal verb
Definition
to do something unpleasant to someone because they have done something unpleasant to you
He swore he'd pay her back for all she'd done to him.
(Definition of pay sb back from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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