serve sb right
informalIf you say that something bad serves someone right, you mean that that person deserves it:
"He hit me!" "It serves you right. You shouldn't have been so mean to him."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Deserving and deserved
- birthright
- come
- comeuppance
- deserts
- deserve
- deserved
- deservedly
- deserving
- get your just deserts idiom
- had it coming (to you) idiom
- hard-earned
- he/she deserves whatever/everything he/she gets idiom
- just
- merit
- serve
- well earned
- worthy
- worthy