the biter bit

the biter bitten (or bit)

phrase

• Used to indicate that someone is being treated in the same way that they have treated others, typically badly.

  ‘now the cruel biter was being cruelly bitten’

• ‘It's the old tale of the biter bit: Jarrett finds he doesn't hold all the cards, and Raja exacts revenge for being made to look like Liberace.’
• ‘Just twelve months later, he almost repeated the trick, taking Luton back to the final, though this time it was a case of the biter bit as, after leading 1 -, they finally succumbed 3-1 to Cloughie's Nottingham Forest.’
• ‘Arsenal, by the way, look like a case now of the biter bit.’
• ‘So the irony is delightful, a case of the biter bit, sort of, except that it is the NSW taxpayers that will have been bitten in the end if this judgement is upheld in any appeal.’
• ‘I do enjoy reading Guido's blog, it's fun, but this case of the biter bit was just too tempting to ignore.’

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