- According to a proverb, it is best served cold - Act of retaliation - Hit back - Retaliation - Tit for tat - To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult,
etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; --
followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing
wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object,
and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer. - To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or
malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.