One good turn deserves another
A kindness is properly met with another kindness.
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one good turn deserves another
one good turn deserves anotherA 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.
One good turn deserves another
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one good turn deserves another
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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
"No, no, Hourigan, I'll guarantee for him that he'll treat you liberally: one good turn deserves another, you know."
From The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William
It furnished me with pleasant thoughts for so long, I decided that one good turn deserves another.
From Marjorie Dean College Junior by Lester, Pauline
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