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To fight fire with fire means to retort with the same thing that was "thrown at you" (not literally speaking). It can also mean to use the same types of tactics that the other person used against you. A related phrase is "Two can play this game!" That means if one person's actions are acceptable, then the other person should be able to get by with it too.
This idiom originated from a practice of setting fires to stop a main fire from advancing. If you are trapped in a camp and there is a forest fire approaching and there is no way out, then you could dig a trench in a circle a safe distance from you and set what is outside the trench on fire. It will burn away from you and there won't be anything to burn when the main fire approaches it. So sometimes, the strategy to solve a problem is the same one which caused it.
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