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"Tit for tat" Quotes from Famous Books

... de ball a-rollin', boys, an' each one do his best To make de wurld a happy one—for dat's how man is blest. Do unto oders all around de t'ing what's good and true, An' oders, 'turning tit for tat, will do de same to you. ...

— Blown to Bits - or, The Lonely Man of Rakata • Robert Michael Ballantyne

... constantly uppermost with him. "Blood for blood", and "life for life", and such like balanced jingles, have passed current in people's mouths, from legislators downwards, until they have been corrupted into "tit for tat", ...

— Miscellaneous Papers • Charles Dickens

... in my life. You would have been the last I should single out for it. I have had many ups and downs, Lionel, but somehow I have hitherto always managed to alight on my legs; and I believe it's because I let other folks get along—tit for tat, you see. A fellow who is for ever putting his hindering spoke in the wheel of others, is safe to get hindering spokes put into his. I am not a pattern model," comically added John Massingbird; "but I have never done wilful injury to others, and ...

— Verner's Pride • Mrs. Henry Wood

Words linked to "Tit for tat" : paying back, getting even, return