just desserts
What goes around
Just desserts is a common misspelling of *just deserts*—the outcome someone deserves, especially punishment for wrongdoing.
The confusion arises because *desert* (meaning deserved reward or punishment) is pronounced like *dessert* (the sweet course), and the "deserved" sense of *desert* has largely fallen out of use except in this phrase.
He got his just deserts when the scheme collapsed.
- comeuppanceDeserved punishment or rebuke
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- what goes aroundActions returning to sender
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
eye for an eye · punishment · reckoning · day of reckoning · reap · penalty · sow · deserved · biter · taste of their own medicine · sanction · backfire · chickens come home · accountability · reward · judge · discipline · sentence
- fairnessfair play, fair shake, fair treatment, fair and square, fair share
- retributionretribution, revenge, payback, vengeance, retaliation
- revengeretaliation, payback, vengeance, vendetta, blood feud
- ironic twiststwist of fate, dramatic irony, situational irony, tragic irony, reversal of fortune
- poetic justicecomeuppance, karmic retribution, moral reckoning, tables turned
- Schadenfreudeserves you right, boo hoo, world's smallest violin, cry me a river, comeuppance
just dessertsill-gotten gains
Wealth obtained dishonestly
getting away with it · scot-free · miscarriage of justice · wrongful conviction · free pass
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