noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
get
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The animals are, and he's got his comeuppance .
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Nobody could doubt that metalwork was going to get its comeuppance .
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There's no better entertainment than seeing a bunch of over-paid, pampered prima donnas getting their comeuppance .
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Smugly repaired, it was on the wet homeward trip that I got my comeuppance .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the end highway robberies, riots and an unspecified sense of comeuppance is what we are left with.
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Bad guys did not suffer their comeuppance in Act V on the forty-first floor.
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But what you might encounter now is a club that has suffered not a devastating loss, but a jarring comeuppance .
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The animals are, and he's got his comeuppance .
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The bad man always got his comeuppance , the hero got the girl.
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They think they're wooing the masses; instead they're sowing the seeds of their comeuppance .