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“Tooth for a Tooth” is the outlier on Johanna Warren’s new album, “Lessons for Mutants,” which is mostly volatile, guitar-centered indie-rock.

Instead, “Tooth for a Tooth” is a slow-swaying piano ballad — with upright bass and brushed drums — that tries to find solace after a breakup: “I’d rather be lonely and empowered/Than on a cross or devoured,” she croons.

“The law of Leviticus states ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life.’

"A eye for eye, tooth for a tooth," Kim Dong-yup said.

From Reuters

“On game day, he’s Old Testament, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” his son Tommy Bowden, a former Clemson football coach, told the CBS News program “60 Minutes II.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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