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Tit for tat   /tɪt fɔr tæt/   Listen
noun
Tit  n.  
1.
A small horse.
2.
A woman; used in contempt.
3.
A morsel; a bit.
4.
(Zool.)
(a)
Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families Paridae and Leiotrichidae; a titmouse.
(b)
The European meadow pipit; a titlark.
Ground tit. (Zool.) See Wren tit, under Wren.
Hill tit (Zool.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to Siva, Milna, and allied genera.
Tit babbler (Zool.), any one of several species of small East Indian and Asiatic timaline birds of the genus Trichastoma.
Tit for tat. An equivalent; retaliation.
Tit thrush (Zool.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic and East Indian birds belonging to Suthora and allied genera. In some respects they are intermediate between the thrushes and titmice.





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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


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