turnabout is fair play

短语

别名

turn about is fair play

释义与例句

prov.
  1. 1.

    It is allowable to retaliate against an enemy's dirty tricks by using the same ones against them.

    My Endeavours were used to perplex their Thoughts and Judgments; I told them, that at next Wednesday’s Dinner I hoped we would be informed who were to rule the Roast, that hitherto honest Men were kept from shuffling the Cards, because they would cast Knaves out from the Company of Kings, but we would make them know, Turn about was fair Play, and that two and three made five, though many Words did not fill a Bushel.

  2. 2.

    Taking turns is morally right.

词源

First use appears c. 1755, of British or Irish origin.

来源：wiktionary