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give someone tit for tat
Fig. to give someone something equal to what was given you; to exchange a series of very similar things, one by one, with someone. They gave me the same kind of difficulty that I gave them. They gave me tit for tat. He punched me, so I punched him. Every time he hit me, I hit him. I just gave him tit for tat.
See also: give, tit

tit-for-tat  (informal)
a tit-for-tat action is something bad that you do to someone because they have done something bad to you (always before noun) Six of the victims died in tit-for-tat attacks. (informal)


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We hear: "Ricky loved Becks' tats when he came to his dressing room to wish him luck before fighting Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas.
Thus, TATs serve a variety of purposes including (a) providing immediate assistance to general educators (Chalfant et al), (b) maintaining students with learning and behavioral difficulties in general education (Graden, Casey, & Christenson, 1985; Nelson, Smith, Taylor, Dodd, & Reavis, 1992), and (c) reducing the total number of special education referrals while increasing the proportion of appropriate referrals (Graden et al).
Our study of outlier TATs, defined as TATs in excess of 70 minutes, showed that only 28% were caused by the analytic phase of the total testing process; most delays occurred in preanalytic steps associated with specimen collection and transport or postanalytic steps involved with reporting the results.
 
 
 
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