payback

Related to payback: Payback period

it's payback time

It is time for revenge against or retribution from someone or something; it is time for someone or something to get what they deserve. They stole the championship from us last year, but now it's payback time.
See also: payback, time

payback

Revenge or retribution. Many people believe the demotion was payback for his refusal to support the legislation. I could see him staggering over to us, drunk as a skunk and looking for payback.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

it’s ˈpayback time

(especially American English, informal) used to say that you are now going to make somebody suffer because of something bad he/she did to you: You were mean to me when we were kids, and now it’s payback time!
See also: payback, time
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

payback

n. retribution. You hit me, I hit you. That’s your payback.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • be/have done with somebody/something
  • avenge (oneself) against (someone or something)
  • be in line with (someone or something)
  • better of
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • begin with
  • begin with (someone or something)
  • bird has flown, the
  • beware of
  • beware of (someone or something)
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Martin Davies, chief executive of West Yorkshire CRC, said: "Community payback provides a tough, effective and visible punishment requiring people to undertake challenging work while giving something back to communities where they live.
It manages more than 11,000 offenders at any one time and an average of 900 new cases a month Chris Edwards, chief executive of CGM CRC, said: "Community payback provides a tough, effective and visible punishment requiring people to undertake challenging work while giving something back to communities where they live.
The community payback scheme was introduced in 2011 and is one of the ways in which offenders put something positive back into their local communities and address their offending behaviour.
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