COMEUPPANCE


Meaning of COMEUPPANCE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

get

The animals are, and he's got his comeuppance .

Nobody could doubt that metalwork was going to get its 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 .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At the end highway robberies, riots and an unspecified sense of comeuppance is what we are left with.

Bad guys did not suffer their comeuppance in Act V on the forty-first floor.

But what you might encounter now is a club that has suffered not a devastating loss, but a jarring comeuppance .

The animals are, and he's got his comeuppance .

The bad man always got his comeuppance , the hero got the girl.

They think they're wooing the masses; instead they're sowing the seeds of their comeuppance .

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