English-Spanish translations for eye for an eye

• ojo por ojo
  Ojo por ojo, diente por diente. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
  Cuando se aplica la ley del ojo por ojo, todos se quedan ciegos. But an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
  El principio del ojo por ojo sólo consigue cegar al mundo. The principle of an eye for an eye, makes the whole world blind.

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