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have it coming
Idioms and Phrases
Deserve what one receives, as in You may not like being reprimanded, but you have to admit you had it coming , or When he won the Nobel Prize, everyone said he'd had it coming for a long time . [c. 1900]Example Sentences
After the 9/11 attacks, I caught myself thinking, they had it coming.
Foremost among them is the assurance that’s he going to extralegally kill a lot of people who have it coming and not feel bad about one of them.
US media has reported that Mr Mangione was arrested carrying a handwritten document that said "these parasites had it coming".
The short screed calls healthcare CEOs "parasites" and says that people like Thompson "had it coming."
The note, which has been seen by several US media outlets, reportedly refers to "parasites" that "had it coming".
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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