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get comeuppance
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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.


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It was one of those weekends when seeing wasn't quite believing in the NFL, from Michael Vick's reprise of The Dirty Bird to Vince Young's redux of the Rose Bowl against the New York Trojans to the Raiders' comeuppance -- some 28 years later -- for the Holy Roller.
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.
Now it appears that DeLay will get his comeuppance.
 
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