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.
- 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