get one's fairing
verb1
Scotland To get what one deserves.
- Ah, Tam! ah, Tam! thou’ll get thy fairin’! In hell they’ll roast thee like a herrin’!1791, Robert Burns, Tam O’Shanter, New York: K. Tompkins, published 1874:
- Related terms
- just deserts
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