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tit-for-tat
noun- a reaction equal and opposite to the action UK, 1556
- This guy’s looking to play tit for tat. That’s not my game. I’m gonna play hardball. — Tin Men, 1987
- “I don’t mean any money changed hands. I mean, there was a little quid pro quo. A little tit for tat.” — Robert Campbell, The Cat’s Meow, p. 120, 1988
- a hat UK, 1930
Rhyming slang. Can be shortened to “titfer”, “titfa” or “tit-for”. - [T]hey think “tit-fer” is especially funny. — Tom Wolfe, The Pump House Gang, p. 179, 1968
- [Y]ou should ’ave brought your titfer with you[.] — The Sweeney, p. 6, 1976
- It’s all very well lavishing the grace and favour on saddle makers and titfer merchants up West[.] — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 15, 1994
- Also titfer’ed up is bassist Happy Tom [of Turbonegro]. — X-Ray, p. 77, June 2003
- a trade union traitor AUSTRALIA
Rhyming slang for RAT- — John Ayto, The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang, 2002
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