get one's fairing

verb

To get what one deserves.

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get what's coming to one
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Meanings

verbget one's fairing (third-person singular simple present gets one's fairing, present participle getting one's fairing, simple past and past participle got one's fairing)

present singular third person gets one's fairing · participle present getting one's fairing · participle past got one's fairing · past got one's fairing

  1. ScotlandTo 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

    Synonyms: get what's coming to one

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo get what one deserves.

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get what's coming to one
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