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

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

"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

Whitredge will get what is coming to him; the Bar Association will see to that.

From Branded by Lynde, Francis

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