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Tit Tat Action Criticized I Didn’t Sentence In The Loop 725

Id in_the_loop_725
Idiom TIT FOR TAT
Definition an action in exchange for another equal action
Examples
  1. Mark criticized Pam’s clothes and in return she criticized his haircut. It was tit for tat.
  2. I didn’t wash the dishes for you yesterday, and today you didn’t take out the trash for me. I guess it’s tit for tat.
Cross-Refs

Synonym: give (someone) a taste of his own medicine; fix (someone’s) wagon

Extra Info

The expression may describe insults (sentence 1) or some harmless error (sentence 2).

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