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

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

From Branded by Lynde, Francis

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

From The Power of Concentration by Dumont, Theron Q.

"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

"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