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tit for tat
noun as in measure for measure
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Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.
Other feminist sites have championed objectifying men in tit-for-tat fashion as empowering women.
This series of tit-for-tat bombings has created the most violent and volatile dynamic in Lebanon since the end of the civil war.
But the brewing scandal is about more than political tit-for-tat.
An argument over money provokes tit-for-tat hostage-takings between guerrilla commanders.
It requires some study to make out who is the speaker in the tit-for-tat of the dialogue.
Mr. Stanges play was an amusing comedy, dealing with domestic infelicityof the tit-for-tat orderin the old style.
It was therefore but tit-for-tat when Minos sent Athenian tributary boys and girls to fight his bull, the bullheaded Minotaur.
Was she saying to herself that this was tit-for-tat; a riposte for his "Sibyl" of their talk in the morning?
He had declared war against Bence; henceforth, he vowed, the tit-for-tat policy should be pursued with implacable thoroughness.
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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tit for tat, such as: equivalent, eye for an eye, like for like, quid pro quo, something for something, and trade-off.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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