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Get what’s coming to you

DEFINITION

Chastised. What is coming to you suggests that one has done an immoral or illegal thing and needs to pay retribution.  (Compare to Chickens comes home to roost; Karma; Hammer falls, What goes around,comes around or Pay back.)

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