Brewer's: Herefordshire Kindness

A good turn rendered for a good turn received. Latin proverbs, “Fricantem refrica; “Manus manum lavat.” Fuller says the people of Herefordshire “drink back to him who drinks to them.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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