tit for tat

Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.

Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.

Twenty-five more for-profits are on well on their way to doing the same thing.

Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?

The result of this stock-taking shows that eleven volumes were unaccounted-for, a list of which is appended.

At this stock-taking the number unaccounted-for is twenty-two, several of which are quite recent accessions to the Library.

He has his particular likings and tit-bits, and is very expert in carving out the parts of an animal that please him best.

Edna's desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.

I was here a little while ago and nobody answered my knock, though I could hear that typewriter going rat, tat, tat all the time.