get one's fairing

English

Verb

get one's fairing (third-person singular simple present gets one's fairing, present participle getting one's fairing, simple past and past participle got one's fairing)

1. (Scotland) To get what one deserves. [18th–19th c.]
   • 1791, Robert Burns, Tam O’Shanter‎^[1], New York: K. Tompkins, published 1874:

     Ah, Tam! ah, Tam! thou’ll get thy fairin’!
     In hell they’ll roast thee like a herrin’!