Tit For Tat (Noun)
Meaning
An equivalent given in return.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- They responded with a tit for tat, imposing their own trade tariffs in response to the ones we had imposed on them.
- The politician's opponent accused her of engaging in tit for tat by voting against a bill that the opponent had sponsored, simply because the opponent had voted against one of her own earlier.
- The two siblings had been engaging in a never-ending game of tit for tat, each one trying to outdo the other in mischief and retaliation.
- The country's foreign minister threatened a tit for tat if the neighboring nation did not stop its aggressive military maneuvers along the shared border.
- The coworkers' tit for tat had been escalating for weeks, with each one trying to one-up the other in a series of petty pranks and practical jokes.