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give someone a dose/taste of their own medicine

to do the same bad thing to someone that they have often done to you, in order to show them how unpleasant it is. She's always turning up late for me so I thought I'd give her a taste of her own medicine and see how she likes it.

See also: give, medicine, taste

go through someone/something like a dose of salts (old-fashioned)

if something you eat goes through your body like a dose of salts, it goes through you very quickly. Those beans went through me like a dose of salts.

See also: like, salt, through

in small doses

if you like someone or something in small doses, you only like them for short periods. She's all right in small doses but I wouldn't want to spend a whole lot of time with her.

See also: small