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even the score

verb

Etymology

By analogy to scorekeeping in sports.

Definitions

  1. To seek or obtain revenge against someone.

    • Near-synonyms: pay off old scores, pay back in someone's own coin
    • When the student pulled a prank on the principal, the principal evened the score by giving the student a suspension.

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No curated loop yet for even the score. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA