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Originally posted by: dhrishti_

Hey, I don't think this dialogue was meant to be taken to the letter. Literally speaking, it's plain impossible. Fire isn't going to defeat fire, in fact, water would.

However, I believe the dialogue referred to the idiom "to fight fire with fire". The idiom signifies to respond to an attack by using similar methods/tactics as the attacker. When we fight fire with fire, we are likely to exert more extreme methods than we would normally do.

If I'm not mistaken, the idiom originates from the Shakespearean play King John:

"Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire;

Threaten the threatener and outface the brow of bragging horror"

Hope I was helpful 😊

Originally posted by: Fernandes43

To retaliate with a similar form of attack that has been used against you.

This phrase is believed to have originated with firefighters, who will literally fight fire

with fire depending on what method the situation calls for.

That's right, simply using water is not always the ideal solution. In fact, there are several approaches for extinguishing a flame! One of the techniques firefighters may use, depending on the circumstances, is literally what this phrase states: they will fight fire by making their own fire!

This technique is called backfiring, and is typically utitlized to help control violent forest fires. The strategy is to intentionally set a fire in front of the oncoming primary fire in order to create a "roadblock" of sorts. By burning away the nearby timber, the primary fire will have nothing to fuel itself once it reaches that burnt out area, thus crippling the fire from advancing any further.

This idiom is found in plenty of newspapers from the mid to late 19th century. One of them, for example, is The Rock County Recorder from the 1870s, where the expression is written within:

Reference: Newspaper archive contained a digital copy of the newspaper that contained the idiom in the quote above.

Courtesy :http://www.knowyourphrase.com/phrase-meanings/fight-fire-with-fire.html

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