A good turn rendered for a good turn received. Latin proverbs, “Fricantem refriʹca;” “Manus manum lavat.” Fuller says the people of Herefordshire “drink back to him who drinks to them.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.