revenge is sweet

phrase

Definitions

  1. Said when one is satisfied in taking revenge.

    • […]wee can force no anſwere from him, but (Ô reuenge, how ſweet art thou! I will ſtrangle him in this towell)[…]
    • The ci-devant marquis was caught disguised in her apartment. She betrayed for him a good, easy friend of the people who had long loved her, and revenge is sweet.
    • All revenge is sweet; but what revenge so sweet to any man as that which came to his arms of its own accord? I do notice that men can't read men, but any woman can read a woman.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for revenge is sweet. 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