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

"I'll not go until I get what is coming to me," was the sullen retort.

From The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys by Hope, Laura Lee

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

From Branded by Lynde, Francis

"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

We get what is coming to us, nothing more or less.

From The Power of Concentration by Dumont, Theron Q.