have it coming

present singular third person has it coming · participle present having it coming · participle past had it coming · past had it coming

1. idiomaticTo deserve or merit, as the consequences of one's actions.

   You had that coming (to you).

   3 more examples

   He was on his first vacation in ten years and he figured he had it coming to him.

   1940 February 5, “Manufacturing: Done with Mirrors”, in Time, archived from the original on 25 May 2009

   But when the shock had faded, more hard-headed reaction set in. This wasn’t just the feeling that, however tactfully you dress it up, the United States had it coming.

   2001 October 4, Mary Beard, “11 September”, in London Review of Books, volume 23, number 19, →ISSN

   Although one might baulk at giving an 83-year-old a hard time, this particular 83-year-old has it coming.

   2007 April 8, Ruth Dudley Edwards, “Kissinger on Black list of witnesses for the defence”, in Irish Independent, retrieved 24 Jan 2010