get what's coming to one
Receive due outcome
To get what's coming to one is to receive deserved consequences, usually negative: After years of cheating people, he finally got what was coming to him.
The phrase implies justice or karma catching up with someone.
Occasionally used for positive outcomes—rewards finally arriving—but the punitive sense dominates.
- rewardPayment for service
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
- penaltyPunishment for wrongdoing
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- sanctionApproval or punitive measure
vengeance · fate · accountability · inevitability · nemesis · day of reckoning · desert · comeuppance · causality · punishment · compensation · recompense · judgment · retribution · taste of one's own medicine · equity · cosmic justice · consequence
justice and accountability
get what's coming to oneget away with it
slip through the cracks · beat the rap · get away with murder · walk free · skate by