get what is coming

Example Sentences

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No reformer, he here reports what he has seen without indignation, seems to feel that, on the whole, criminals get what is coming to them.

From Time Magazine Archive

"You show me your papers, and if they are all right, I'll see that you get what is coming to you," mumbled Davenport.

From The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields by Stratemeyer, Edward

"Well, the Sobbers are going to get what is coming to them," put in Tom.

From The Rover Boys in Alaska or Lost in the Fields of Ice by Richards, Dick

When you get what is coming to me, won't that help you? and you shall have the whole of it, dear Joel, every dollar!'

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Anyway,’ ses he, ‘I don’t care a traneen what happens to you, so long as I will get what is coming to me.’

From The Whale and the Grasshopper And other Fables by O'Brien, Seumas