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a dish so famously cold it's basically a frozen meal you reheat for years
means the act of inflicting harm or hurt on someone in return for a wrong they did to you.
from From Old French 'revengier,' itself built from Latin 're-' (back) plus 'vindicare' (to claim, avenge, set free) — the same 'vindicare' that gives us 'vindicate' and 'vengeance.' So tucked inside revenge is the old idea of laying claim to something owed, the way you'd reclaim property — only what's being reclaimed is a debt of injury. The word arrived in English in the late Middle Ages, already carrying that ledger-keeping flavor.
- brain reward
- plotting payback activates the same circuits as cravings
- klingon proverb
- revenge is a dish best served cold
- vendetta law
- corsican blood feuds once spanned generations of families
- living well
- the best revenge cliche traces to george herbert
- backfire effect
- studies show retaliation often deepens, not heals, anger
count of monte cristo — edmond dantès imprisoned 14 years, escapes to reclaim his life from those who betrayed him
montagues and capulets — two verona families in shakespeare's romeo and juliet, feuding for generations with repeated killings
julius caesar assassination — brutus and senators killed caesar in 44 bc; his heir octavian hunted them down for years