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词汇 tit for tat
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tit for tat
informal tit-for-tat - a tit-for-tat action is something bad that you do to someone because they have done something bad to you.
I forgot her birthday and so she didn't send me a card either. It was just tit for tat.
idiomtit for tat(also tit-for-tat)used about something that a group does in order to harm a group which harmed them:Columbia's two main drugs cartels are attacking each other with a series of tit-for-tat murders and kidnappings.Relations between the two countries are stable, although tit for tat expulsions have drastically reduced the numbers of embassy staff in both countries.

tit for tat

Describing an act of retaliation. The phrase is most likely an alteration of the Dutch phrase "tip for tap," which means "blow for blow." She's mad at me, so she refuses to help me plan this event—typical tit for tat.

tit for tat

Repayment in kind, retaliation, as in If he won't help with the beach clean-up, I won't run a booth at the bake sale; that's tit for tat . This term is believed to be a corruption of tip for tap, which meant "a blow for a blow." Its current form dates from the mid-1500s.

tit for tat

Tit for tat is something that someone does to upset or harm someone who has upset or harmed them. In an apparent tit for tat, he announced he was sacking the members of two committees responsible for reactor safety. Note: Tit for tat is also used before nouns. A tit for tat dispute has led to the virtual closure of the border between the two countries.

tit for tat

a situation in which an injury or insult is given in return or retaliation.

ˌtit for ˈtat

a situation in which you do something unpleasant to somebody because they have done something unpleasant to you: He hit me, so I hit him back — it was tit for tat.the routine tit for tat when countries expel each other’s envoys

tit for tat

Payment in kind; precise retaliation. Most authorities believe this expression was a corruption of tip for tap, meaning “a blow for a blow.” It was already in its current form in the sixteenth century. John Heywood’s Proverbs (1546) stated, “Sens tyt for tat (quoth I) on euen hand is set, Set the hares head against the goose ieblet,” and in his Spider and Flie (1556), “That is tit for tat in this altricacion.”
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