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have it coming

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  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]

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If I wanted to be stupid, if I persisted in being stupid, if I just couldn’t resist being stupid, then she figured I had it coming and she wouldn’t hold me back.

From Literature

In my defense, he tossed around the story of that unfortunate field trip where I wet my pants like it was confetti, so he had it coming.

From Literature

It feels dirty, but also delicious – after all, the guys who buy it really, really have it coming.

From Salon

Unloading your pent-up ire on someone is never right, not even if they have it coming, we're told.

From Salon

It’s those who, well, have it coming to them.

From New York Times

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