English-Swedish translations for eye for an eye

• öga för öga
  Öga för öga och tand för tand.An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
  Men öga för öga gör att alla blir blinda.But an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
  På Irland känner vi alltför väl till våldsspiraler, vedergällningar och öga för öga-tänkande.We know only too well the cycle of violence, the tit–for–tat, the eye for an eye.

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