Sly digs

[HighlandsAndBeaches]

If someone you know in a semi-professional capacity makes sly digs at you how would you deal with it?

Do you know of any good, generic come backs to manage a stream of unsolicited and underhand comments?

Do you confront them head on, react in a passive aggressive way, kill with kindness, blank them?

What approach lets you claim your power back if said comments go under your skin, bearing in mind that you have to be around them so can't quite burn your bridges?

This happened to me. I put up with it for ages then one day i just said "what exactly do you mean by that comment?" She blustered but it never happened again

Thank you @Buzzer3555 . I'll remember that, I'm glad that they stopped after you questioned their intention.

Any other come backs? Doesn't really have to be in a semi-professional context but could be anyone, family, 'frenemy', work.

I was a bit oblivious when this first happened to me. So passive-agressive colleague would say - oh there you are, I thought you had left the building! And I'd reply something like - oh I've been at my desk completing x paperwork, have you been looking for me?
So essentially not reacting to her. Once I realised she was trying to be spiteful, she had got bored of poking at me and moved on to someone else.