"the biter bit" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2018 July 6, Fiona Beckett, “Four wines that don't need to make a point”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "There was a bit of a Twitter storm recently after a bordeaux producer suggested that half the wine critics who rated the en primeur releases didn’t know their fundaments from their elbows. Well, fair enough, the biter bit and all that – chefs often have a go at restaurant critics, too.",
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        "(British) A hurt person who has hurt others in the past."
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          "word": "beat someone at their own game"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "word": "pilkattu pilkkaaja"
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          "lang": "French",
          "word": "arroseur arrosé"
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          "code": "fr",
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          "word": "tel est pris qui croyait prendre"
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "word": "akasztják a hóhért"
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  "word": "the biter bit"
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