comeuppance

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++come·up·pance /kʌmˈʌpəns/ noun [singular] DESERVEa punishment or something bad which happens to you that you really deserve 应得的惩罚；报应 You’ll get your comeuppance one day! 总有一天你会得报应的！

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comeuppance• The bad man always got his comeuppance, the hero got the girl.• The animals are, and he's got his comeuppance.• But what you might encounter now is a club that has suffered not a devastating loss, but a jarring comeuppance.• At the end highway robberies, riots and an unspecified sense of comeuppance is what we are left with.• They think they're wooing the masses; instead they're sowing the seeds of their comeuppance.• Bad guys did not suffer their comeuppance in Act V on the forty-first floor.get ... comeuppance• There's no better entertainment than seeing a bunch of over-paid, pampered prima donnas getting their comeuppance.• Smugly repaired, it was on the wet homeward trip that I got my comeuppance.• The animals are, and he's got his comeuppance.• Nobody could doubt that metalwork was going to get its comeuppance.Origin comeuppance (1800-1900) Perhaps from come up “to appear in a court of law”