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get comeuppance
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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: get
get your comeuppance
if you get your comeuppance, something bad happens to you as a result of something bad that you have done to someone else He'll get his comeuppance, you'll see. You can't treat people the way he does and not go unpunished in this world.
See also: get
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The Nats will get their comeuppance and the whole indie issue will go away for another generation.
Let us decide by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Last night one show source said: "It's time Stella got her comeuppance for the misery she's put Ben through.
BYE, STELLA by The Mirror (London, England)
This is the moment cheating Charlie Stubbs finally gets his comeuppance at the hands of scheming girlfriend Tracy Barlow in a killer episode of Coronation Street.
Cheating Charlie all set to meet his maker.. by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
 
 
 
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