give as good as you get
to be strong and confident enough to treat people in the same way that they treat you, especially in an argument or a fight:
There's a lot of teasing and fighting among the crew, and you have to be able to give as good as you get.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Answering & responding
- acknowledgment
- and the same to you with (brass) knobs on idiom
- answer back
- back
- counter
- counterattack
- counterblast
- defensive
- field
- fifth
- get back to sb
- give
- I take/plead the Fifth (Amendment) idiom
- rejoin
- rejoinder
- reply
- respond
- respondent
- thank you
- unanswered
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