have it coming
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have it coming (third-person singular simple present has it coming, present participle having it coming, simple past and past participle had it coming)
- (idiomatic) To deserve or merit, as the consequences of one's actions.
- 1940 February 5, “Manufacturing: Done with Mirrors”, in Time[1], archived from the original on 25 May 2009:
- He was on his first vacation in ten years and he figured he had it coming to him.
- 2001 October 4, Mary Beard, “11 September”, in London Review of Books[2], volume 23, number 19, →ISSN:
- But when the shock had faded, more hard-headed reaction set in. This wasn’t just the feeling that, however tactfully you dress it up, the United States had it coming.
- 2007 April 8, Ruth Dudley Edwards, “Kissinger on Black list of witnesses for the defence”, in Irish Independent[3], retrieved January 24, 2010:
- Although one might baulk at giving an 83-year-old a hard time, this particular 83-year-old has it coming.
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to deserve or merit
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