fight fire with fire

Meaning: (idiomatic)To respond to an attack with a similar oridenticalcounter-attack(e.g. to respond togunfirewithreciprocalgunfire).1983,Talking Heads, “Burning Down the House”, inSpeaking in Tongues:Close enough but not too far / Maybe you know where you are /Fightin' fire with fire2010July 27,Blizzard, quotingFirebat,StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty,v1.0,Blizzard Entertainment,Microsoft Windows:Fight fire with fire

Examples:

EN: You will have to fight fire with fire.
ES: Deberéis combatir el fuego con fuego.
EN: You must fight fire with fire.
ES: Hay que derrotar al fuego con el fuego.
EN: You gotta fight fire with fire, crooks with crookery.
ES: Hay que pagar con la misma moneda, robarles a los ladrones.
EN: I fight fire with fire.
ES: Cada uno emplea sus armas.
EN: - Sometimes, one must fight fire with fire.
ES: - A veces las armas son el único remedio.
EN: From now on, we're going to fight fire with fire.
ES: Desde ahora, lucharemos con sus mismas armas.
EN: You're trying to fight fire with fire.
ES: Estás tratando de combatir el fuego con fuego.
EN: With the DA using high-pressure tactics, I had to fight fire with fire.
ES: Tenía que defenderme contra las tácticas agresivas de ese fiscal.
EN: "you have to fight fire with fire".
ES: "A los grandes males, grandes remedios".
EN: I fight fire with fire, gunslinger with gunslinger.
ES: Combato fuego con fuego, pistolero con pistolero.
EN: We had to fight fire with fire.
ES: Tenemos que combatir el fuego con el fuego.
EN: We'll fight fire with fire.
ES: Responderemos a la fuerza con la fuerza.
EN: Ma always said you're supposed to fight fire with fire... but looks like he's pretty well burned out already.
ES: - Está bien. Ma siempre dice que hay que pelear fuego con fuego... pero parece que él ya está muy chamuscado.
EN: Well, we'll just fight fire with fire.
ES: Pues bien, combatiremos el fuego con el fuego.
EN: Well, Herman, if Lily's going to have a job as a model, we are gonna fight fire with fire.
ES: Herman, si Lily trabajará como modelo... tendremos que combatir el fuego con fuego.

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