transferred and figurative. Something rushing impetuously like a whirlwind; a violent or destructive agency; a confused and tumultuous process or…
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| 释义 | society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (intransitive)] > deserve well or ill > get one's deserts (8) to sow the wind and reap the whirlwindc1384 transferred and figurative. Something rushing impetuously like a whirlwind; a violent or destructive agency; a confused and tumultuous process or… to drink to one's oysters1470 to drink to one's oysters: to get the worst of a deal; to have a bad time of it. Obsolete. to serve (a person) right1587 to serve (a person) right: to punish or treat (a person who commits an offence or behaves foolishly or unreasonably) appropriately; (later also… to get the wissel of one's groat1721 Change for an amount of money; esp. in to get the wissel of one's groat, figurative to be ‘paid out’. to get one's fairing1787 Scottish and Irish English (northern). That which is deserved; a due reward or recompense, whether good or evil. Chiefly in to get one's fairing, to… to get one's bitters1812 fig., esp. in U.S. colloq. phr. to get one's bitters: to get one's deserts. Obs. to get one's faring1846 to get one's faring: see fairing, n.1 2b. come1896 In the progressive. intransitive. To be due (to a person) as something owed, earned, or deserved. |
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