get one's

get one's

1. Get one's due punishment or reward, as in If they put off their schoolwork to go the ball game, sooner or later they'll get theirs , or The union members were prepared to go on strike; they were determined to get theirs. The punishment version is earlier, dating from about 1900.
2. Be killed, as in "He'd got his. I knew it by the way his head rolled in my hands" (Rudyard Kipling, Diversity of Creatures, 1913). This usage originated in the military. [c. 1900]
See also: get
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • get (one's)
  • get yours
  • sooner than you think
  • play through
  • (from) top to toe
  • get behind in (something)
  • sooner or later
  • fall behind in (something)
  • sooner rather than later
  • no sooner said than done