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turnabout is fair play
語源
1755,[1] British/Irish.
ことわざ
- It is allowable to retaliate against an enemy's dirty tricks by using the same ones against them.
- 1755, Dudley Bradstreet, The Life and Uncommon Adventures of Captain Dudley Bradstreet, S. Powell, Dublin, p. 216:[1]
- 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.
- 1755, Dudley Bradstreet, The Life and Uncommon Adventures of Captain Dudley Bradstreet, S. Powell, Dublin, p. 216:[1]
- Taking turns is morally right.
- 1998, Hugh Douglas Price, Nelson W. Polsby, Explorations in the Evolution of Congress, page 92:
- For both mayor parties rotation in office came to embrace the doctrine of taking turns in the distribution of prizes. More than once in his quest for the Whig nomination to Congress Lincoln employed the slogan, “turnabout is fair play." By fair play he referred not to the Youngian antipower notions but to the context for the prize of office.
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Turn about is fair play.
Turn about is fair play.
おあつらえ向きだ.
大試合.
sit in the catbird seat
まあ適当にやるさ.
Take it easy; you don't have to be perfect.
Vicissitudes are the lot of man.
Nature calls.
Your presence is a great compliment.
Thank you for your kind invitation.
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