have it coming

1. 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

Some progressives argued that Kirk had it coming because of his long history of incendiary statements against issues including affirmative action, trans people and Islam.

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After the 9/11 attacks, I caught myself thinking, they had it coming.

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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.

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US media has reported that Mr Mangione was arrested carrying a handwritten document that said "these parasites had it coming".

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The short screed calls healthcare CEOs "parasites" and says that people like Thompson "had it coming."

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