tit for tat

针锋相对,以牙还牙,以礼相待

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : with an equivalent given in retaliation, as a blow for a blow, repartee, etc.: He answered their insults tit for tat.

nounmeasure for measure

Synonyms

Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.
Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.
Twenty-five more for-profits are on well on their way to doing the same thing.
Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?
The result of this stock-taking shows that eleven volumes were unaccounted-for, a list of which is appended.
At this stock-taking the number unaccounted-for is twenty-two, several of which are quite recent accessions to the Library.
He has his particular likings and tit-bits, and is very expert in carving out the parts of an animal that please him best.
Edna's desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.
I was here a little while ago and nobody answered my knock, though I could hear that typewriter going rat, tat, tat all the time.

针锋相对,以牙还牙,以礼相待

n.名词 noun

1
- : with an equivalent given in retaliation, as a blow for a blow, repartee, etc.: He answered their insults tit for tat.

nounmeasure for measure

Synonyms

Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.
Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.
Twenty-five more for-profits are on well on their way to doing the same thing.
Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?
The result of this stock-taking shows that eleven volumes were unaccounted-for, a list of which is appended.
At this stock-taking the number unaccounted-for is twenty-two, several of which are quite recent accessions to the Library.
He has his particular likings and tit-bits, and is very expert in carving out the parts of an animal that please him best.
Edna's desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.
I was here a little while ago and nobody answered my knock, though I could hear that typewriter going rat, tat, tat all the time.