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have it coming

Idioms  

  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

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

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2023

It's not that Andy Dalton didn't have it coming either.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 29, 2019

But rising sea levels contaminate groundwater supplies and aquifers, which basically means Pacific Islanders have it coming from all sides.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2018

And he scams people who have it coming — they go down because they’re greedy.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2017

Poor papa was just like that when he used to have it coming on; and Leonora is not just—altogether—what you would call a female, Frank.

From The Perpetual Curate by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

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