payback time
Dues are due
Payback time is the moment when revenge, retaliation, or consequences finally arrive.
It frames what follows as justified return for past wrongs: They cheated us last year—now it's payback time.
The phrase carries a note of satisfaction or menace, suggesting the score is about to be settled.
- revengePunishing a wrongdoer
- get evenExact reciprocal harm
- vengeanceRetaliation for injury
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- settling scoresAvenging past grievances
reckoning · day of reckoning · karma · what goes around · justice · just desserts · settling · score · debt · dues · comeuppance · retaliation · pay the piper · chickens coming home · grudge · score to settle · nemesis · bitter
- retributionretribution, revenge, payback, vengeance, retaliation
- Braggingbrag, gloat, show off, flex, swagger
- karmacomeuppance, good deeds, poetic justice, karmic debt, what goes around comes around
payback timeforgiveness
Releasing resentment toward offenders
mercy · pardon · letting it go · absolution · clemency
payback timedebt forgiveness
Cancellation of amounts owed
write-off · amnesty · debt relief · cancellation · discharge
back, time, pays, paid, paying, payable, payer, payment, repaid