{"id":22414,"date":"2026-06-21T18:11:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/phrase-meaning-challenge-a-taste-of-ones-own-medicine\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:11:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:11:35","slug":"phrase-meaning-challenge-a-taste-of-ones-own-medicine","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/phrase-meaning-challenge-a-taste-of-ones-own-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrase Meaning Challenge: A taste of one&#8217;s own medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Which answer gives the closest meaning of <strong>A taste of one&#x27;s own medicine<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>to reduce or cause something to fall<\/li>\n<li>sad or unhappy<\/li>\n<li>to start doing something seriously<\/li>\n<li>the same unpleasant treatment one has given others<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3210],"subject":[3116],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-22414","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-contextual-meaning","subject-idioms-phrases","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>A taste of one&#x27;s own medicine<\/strong> means <strong>the same unpleasant treatment one has given others<\/strong>. It is the correct answer because this expression is used figuratively to describe a person experiencing the kind of behavior they used on someone else.<\/p><p>Examples:<\/p><ul><li>The bully got <strong>a taste of his own medicine<\/strong>.<\/li><li>She ignored his calls, giving him <strong>a taste of his own medicine<\/strong>.<\/li><li>After teasing others, he received <strong>a taste of his own medicine<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"to reduce or cause something to fall"},{"right":"no","answer":"sad or unhappy"},{"right":"no","answer":"to start doing something seriously"},{"right":"yes","answer":"the same unpleasant treatment one has given others"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3116,"title":"Idioms &amp; Phrases","slug":"idioms-phrases"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3210,"title":"Contextual Meaning","slug":"contextual-meaning"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/22414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=22414"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=22414"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=22414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}