fight fire with fire
공격이나 위협에 같은 방식으로 대응하다
= return like for like
fight fire with fire
= to use the same methods as your opponents in an argument, competition etc
= to use the same methods as someone else in order to defeat them
It's risky to fight fire with fire.
불에는 불로 싸우는 것은 위험하다
We must fight fire with fire.
우리는 불에는 불로 보복해야 한다
● retaliate
to return like for like, especially evil for evil:to retaliate for an injury.
to requite or make return for (a wrong or injury) with the like.
Examples from the Corpus
fight fire with fire
• Sitting there, I imagined Durrell at his computer, clicking out his program for fighting fire with fire.
• The official pronouncement was that they intended to fight fire with fire.
to use the same methods as someone else in order to defeat them