tit for tat
Equivalent retribution; an act of returning exactly what one gets; an eye for an eye.
If you hit me, I’ll hit you back; tit for tat.
tat
UK /tæt/ US /tæt/
noun 13verb 2name 1
Definitions
noun
1
Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
2
Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
tourist tat
And it agreed with the editorial cartoon which featured a newsman doing a live report in front of a smouldering building and saying, "And it seems millions of pounds of meaningless tat has been lost to the nation for ever."
3
Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).
verb
1
To make (something by) tatting.
noun
1
Clipping of tatting.
She's so swishy in her satin and tat / In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat
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