| 单词 | tit for tat |
| 释义 | tit for tat (once / 31773 pages) n Tit for tat is giving back as much as you got, especially in retaliation for something harmful. If you conk your sister in the head and she conks you right back, that’s tit for tat. And stop it. Tit for tat is really more like “blow for a blow.” If you give someone a cupcake and she gives you one back, that’s not tit for tat, that’s just sweet. Tit for tat is meaner — it’s when someone does something like hit or steal something from someone, and the other person does something equally nasty back. This phrase is related to the saying "Let the punishment fit the crime." WORD FAMILYtit for tat USAGE EXAMPLESReal beauty isn’t tit for tat, as fun and even justified as revenge can be. The New Yorker(Nov 12, 2016) In a 1980 MIT computer tournament based on the game theory classic “prisoner’s dilemma,” the winner was a simple program “tit for tat.” Wall Street Journal(Nov 04, 2016) "So far as I know, it had nothing to do with any kind of hostage swap or any other tit for tat," she said. Los Angeles Times(Aug 04, 2016) n an equivalent given in return Hyper getting even, paying back, return a reciprocal group action |
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