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hit back
vb. To retaliate
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Hit Back
Hit Back (, translit. Otvetnyy khod) is a 1981 Soviet action movie directed by Mikhail Tumanishvili. It is a sequel to In the Zone of Special Attention.
Usage examples of "hit back".
He didn't expect me to hit back, simply because nobody has ever hit back at him before.
We have hit back at the murgu, struck them down, avenged the sammads that they destroyed.
He towered a head taller than his roommate, so if he hit back he'd be called a bully and have half a dozen more fights on his hands within five minutes.
His career may survive it, but any move he ever makes to hit back at me will be seen as a vengeful senior trying to use his position to punish a junior who was simply doing her job when he made himself look like an idiot.