comeuppance

comeuppance

Retribution that one deserves. Don't worry, she'll get her comeuppance—it's only so long until people see through her act.

get (one's) comeuppance

To receive retribution. Don't worry, she'll get her comeuppance—you can't gossip about people without them doing the same to you eventually.
See also: comeuppance, get
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

get one's comeuppance

to get a deserved punishment. I can't wait till that snobbish girl gets her comeuppance. Joe got his comeuppance when the teacher caught him making fun of her.
See also: comeuppance, get
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

get one's comeuppance

Receive the treatment one deserves, especially punishment or retribution. For example, She behaved badly, but I'm sure she'll get her comeuppance soon. The exact relationship of comeuppance to the verb come up in its common senses-"rise" and "present itself"-is no longer clear. [Mid-1800s]
See also: comeuppance, get
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

get your comeˈuppance

(informal) receive a punishment for something bad that you have done and that other people feel you really deserve: I was glad to see that the bad guy got his comeuppance at the end of the movie.
See also: comeuppance, get
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

get one's comeuppance

Get one’s just deserts, get the retaliation one deserves. This term dates from the mid-1800s and features virtually the only use of the noun comeuppance. William Dean Howells used it in The Rise of Silas Lapham (1884): “Rogers is a rascal . . . but I guess he’ll find he’s got his comeuppance.”
See also: comeuppance, get
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • get (one's) comeuppance
  • get comeuppance
  • get one's comeuppance
  • get your comeuppance
  • get yours
  • get (one's)
  • what's coming (to one)
  • what's coming to one
  • give (one) what's coming (to one)
  • exile (someone) from (some place) to (some place)
References in periodicals archive
In the end, Kamal Nath requested Lord Mahakal to punish the Chief Minister as "comeuppance for his deeds."
Kamal Nath's letter to Lord Mahakal against Chouhan
His arrogance will cause further embarrassment and his comeuppance will eventually come around again.
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And Lucas finally gets his comeuppance when he's arrested.
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I hope these morons (can't really call them people) get their comeuppance one day.
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Once he's bound and gagged as a prisoner in an abandoned schoolhouse, Geum-ja decides to share his comeuppance with the bereaved (but greedy) parents of the kids he has murdered.
No way to treat a lady
Now it appears that DeLay will get his comeuppance. There also is a chance that Grover Norquist may be in trouble because of his extensive involvement with Abramoff.
Pay to play
"For me to go through until 2008 will allow me to attend Lambeth and take my comeuppance on all this stuff we've been going through, and then retire," he told staff.
Will he stay or will he go in 2007?
"Many assumed Carmen was a wayward, loose woman getting her comeuppance," the choreographer says.
Preview: The Washington Ballet's Carmen
Well, shouldn't Rodders face a similar comeuppance for the outrageous tsunami reference which saw him given his marching orders from Sky?
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DELIGHTED to see America's Dream (sic) Team get their comeuppance in the Olympic basketball tournament.
GORDON WADDELL: Teams snuff out Dreams
Umbridge's comeuppance, when it finally arrives, drives home a different truth about the nature of authority: Power over people ultimately relies on their own compliance.
Eichmann in Hogwarts: Harry Potter and the banality of evil
Who in literature could be more status-conscious than Vasari's borrowed Giotto, from whom a presumptuous consumer of no discernible lineage supposedly receives a richly deserved comeuppance? Even the illustrations in the 1568 edition of the Lives are themselves a visual reconstruction of artists as Vasari wished them to be remembered, as he simultaneously reshaped the collective identity and family memory of Renaissance art for future generations of historians and art historians.
Art, Family, and Memory in Renaissance Florence. (Reviews)
For example, a pompous and insensitive young office worker is humanized when she gets her surprise comeuppance. It is also lightened by unexpected moments of comedy.
Berlin Film Festival. (Festival Wraps)
The reader is pleased when he receives the ultimate comeuppance. The professors in these stories seem confused and uneasy--like regular people!
McNally, John, ed. The Student body; short stories about college students and professors
An ordinary guy turns vigilante and finds his exploits glorified [in a newspaper in "Comeuppance," an enjoyable, well-worked out light comedy that just goes on a reel too long.
COMEUPPANCE