English-Finnish translations for eye for an eye

• silmä silmästä
  Silmä silmästä, hammas hampaasta. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
  Silmä silmästä -periaate tekee koko maailman sokeaksi. The principle of an eye for an eye, makes the whole world blind.
  Silmä silmästä ja hammas hampaasta -politiikka ei tuota tulosta. A policy of 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth' will bring no resolution.

Definition of eye for an eye

• compensation#English|compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting an identical injury on that person

Related words

• an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
• eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
• an eye for an eye
• have an eye for
• Sanford’s White-eye
• it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kin