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

Well, Molly, you know, as far as we are concerned, one good turn deserves another.

From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

You have stood by your father, my dear; and one good turn deserves another.

From The Prodigal Father by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)