One good turn deserves another

Cultural  

1. A kindness is properly met with another kindness.

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one good turn deserves another Idioms  

1. A favor should be returned in kind, as in I'll give you a ride next time—one good turn deserves another. This maxim was first recorded about 1400, and the converse, One bad turn deserves another, about 1500.

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Example Sentences

It’s also a story about how one good turn deserves another and yet another.

From Washington Times • Mar. 29, 2020

Washington gossips thought they knew the answer: the General, his appetite for public life whetted, hankers for a Cabinet post, thinks the President will recognize that one good turn deserves another.

From Time Magazine Archive

I look at our cart, and decide that one good turn deserves another.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

As one good turn deserves another, rural communities now look to these interests for aid in the struggle to overcome the difficulties which confront them.

From Rural Life and the Rural School by Kennedy, Joseph

"Surely one good turn deserves another," thought the bee, as she turned merrily to her work.

From The Nursery, April 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 4 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various