You get a taste of your own medicine.
What it means
The saying means that if you do something to someone and it wasn't nice it is just going to come right back at you, and you get it done to you. Then you will know how they felt when you did it to them.
Example
My sister when she was little used to pinch me. One day I did it back and she really didn't like it and started crying. And I said you just got a taste of your own medicine.
Family idiom
We have quite a lot of pets so at the end of the week the house is quite messy. So when the time comes to clean the house my Dad always says it's a piece of cake but we always no it's not.
Where the saying came from
The saying you get a taste of your own medicine came from a fable. In the fable the is a man that sells medicine that doesn't work. He sells it to ill people to make money. One day the man falls ill and the people of the village give him the medicine that he made witch he knows doesn't work. So the man got his own taste his medicine.
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