Singer, loud, cut short: a time for revenge (3,3,3)
I believe the answer is:
tit for tat
'revenge' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'singer loud cut short a time' is the wordplay.
'singer' becomes 'tit' (type of songbird).
'loud cut short' becomes 'fort' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'time' becomes 't'.
'tit'+'fort'+'a'+'t'='TIT-FOR-TAT'
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tit for tat that I've seen before include "Equivalent retaliation" , "satisfaction" , "You hit me, I hit you" , "An eye for an eye" , "Retaliation called for" .)