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poetic justice |
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poetic justice if something that happens is poetic justice, someone who has done something bad is made to suffer in a way that seems fair. There is a kind of poetic justice in the fact that the country responsible for the worst ecological disaster this century is the one suffering most from its effects. |
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It was only poetic justice that the chief mate who had made a mistake - perhaps a half-excusable one - about the distribution of his ship's cargo should pay the penalty. That reminds me that I never paid for them; but, by Jove, I will to-morrow, and if that isn't poetic justice, what is? |
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