Return the compliment
Also, return the favor. Repay someone in kind, as in Her political opponent came out with a smear campaign, and she returned the compliment. Neither the compliment nor the favor in this idiom is necessarily desirable. [ First half of 1700s ]
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- Return to the fold
Come back to a group after an absence, as in Matthew taught for a number of years, but now he’s returned to the fold as vice-president of the firm. This term employs fold in the sense of “an enclosure for sheep,” which has been used figuratively since the first half of the 1300s.
- Return to zero
communications A class of encoding methods for physical circuits in which the carrier (current, voltage) returns to zero after each transmitted bit, i.e. the data is carried in pulse width or polarity, not in the level of the signal. Contrast NRZ. (1995-11-11)
- Retuse
adjective 1. having an obtuse or rounded apex with a shallow notch, as leaves. adjective 1. (botany) having a rounded apex and a central depression: retuse leaves
- Retweet
verb (used with object) 1. to share or forward (someone else’s message) on the Twitter website. noun 2. a message that has been shared or forwarded on Twitter: the most popular retweets. verb 1. to post another user’s blog the Twitter website for your own followers