Revenge is a dish best eaten cold.

Revenge is a dish best eaten cold.

Revenge that takes place far in the future, after the offending party has forgotten how they wronged someone, is much more satisfying. I never forgot the way he bullied and humiliated me in high school, but I chose to bide my time. Ten years later, my global corporation bought his family's puny company and exploited it for everything it was worth, leaving him penniless. It's true what they say—revenge is a dish best eaten cold.
See also: dish, eaten, revenge
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • Revenge is a dish best served cold
  • Revenge is a dish best served cold.
  • horsefeathers to you
  • get into (someone's) bad books
  • erupt
  • erupt from
  • erupt from (someone or something)
  • leave a sour taste in (one's) mouth
  • down with somebody/something!
  • down with someone
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IT''S said that revenge is a dish best eaten cold. Greece is now demanding compensation for the 'enforced loan'' Germany made on the country during World War II (and only partially repaid in the mid-60s).