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  • You would get your comeuppance. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
  • These fine visitors, I thought, were in for what I can only describe as a culinary comeuppance.
  • I do hope he gets his comeuppance. Times, Sunday Times
  • I kept thinking that the last pages must be missing, the ones with the comeuppance, but there's none.
  • And after that, Better The Demon You Know, when Asmodeus gets his comeuppance in a big way ... mwah hah hah! Guest Author: Maree Anderson - Even Demons Get The Blues
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  • This is not aq Clinton backer getting his comeuppance --- this is an Arkansas governor paying homage to his predecessor with the highest form of flattery ---- imitation. Huckabee Lashes Out At "Left-Wing" Huffington Post
  • If you love to hate the superrich, The Valet, a delectable comedy in which the great French actor Daniel Auteuil portrays a piggy billionaire industrialist facing his comeuppance, is a sinfully delicious bonbon," writes Stephen Holden in the New York Times. GreenCine Daily: Interview. Francis Veber.
  • It's not much of a comeuppance for a 65-year-old ex-CEO who never has to work again anyway.
  • The central character is a bad man who shoots people and gets his comeuppance.
  • You'll get your comeuppance in due time.
  • But what you might encounter now is a club that has suffered not a devastating loss, but a jarring comeuppance.
  • By the time Delilah weaseled the secret of his strength out of him, Samson seemed ripe for a rude comeuppance.
  • They will enjoy the sight of a cheat getting his comeuppance. Times, Sunday Times
  • It won't be long before he gets his comeuppance. The Sun
  • It makes me happy to see corporate slimeballs get their comeuppance.
  • Then put the remaining runners and riders back in the hat, pay 1 and wait for another coward to get their comeuppance. The Sun
  • The bad man always got his comeuppance, the hero got the girl.
  • It reminds me of that John Wayne movie where his insubordinate and rude eldest son got his comeuppance from the “old man” and old John said; “If you won’t respect your elders, you’ll sure as hell respect your betters.” Think Progress » The Sounds of Peace
  • The evil consequence resulted from men's parturiency is burdened by women. This is a deviation from the idea of Buddhism that all flesh is equal and the major idea of comeuppance.
  • Sooner or later, though, such hubris must receive its grim comeuppance.
  • I guess this is her comeuppance, though she'll never even know it.
  • And after that, Better The Demon You Know, when Asmodeus gets his comeuppance in a big way ... mwah hah hah! Guest Author: Maree Anderson - Even Demons Get The Blues
  • Wall Street bankers get their comeuppance, too. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, it seems that the political comeuppance is always greener on the other side of the Atlantic.
  • As for the rest of you, you'll get your comeuppance soon.
  • The students expect the cheating student to get her comeuppance but nothing happens.
  • The final comeuppance is a bit of a surprise, but I have to admit problem sloughing through the Scottish dialogue, half of which I had to read through twice. REVIEW: Wireless by Charles Stross
  • She was against boasting and selfishness, and in favour of bad characters getting their comeuppance. Times, Sunday Times
  • By any reasonable moral reckoning he deserves all the comeuppance of his bad faith.
  • Be straight with people, as really nasty people get their comeuppance in the end. Times, Sunday Times
  • What's more, sexual outlaws must always get their comeuppance by the final reel.
  • They get their comeuppance in the end in satisfyingly brutal fashion.
  • But HE made the SOB entirely sympathetic and you felt bad that this no-good-schmuck-mamzer was getting his comeuppance. The Importance of Not Being Too Earnest at SF Novelists
  • In the meantime pray that diddy Darren Day gets his comeuppance.
  • But Jimmy Grimble smells like a sweet and innocuous film from the get-go, thus we know someone's going to get their comeuppance, and it isn't dear little Jimmy.
  • Cosmic comeuppance isn't supposed to count for much in football.
  • Doris also ventures back into the troubled waters of romance, whether she's being fixed up by her sons with an egotistical lawman or giving a braggart his comeuppance.
  • It's rare that an actor can not only deserve his comeuppance but maintain your sympathy while getting it.
  • There's no better entertainment than seeing a bunch of over-paid, pampered prima donnas getting their comeuppance.
  • My mother joked,'You are getting your comeuppance. The Sun
  • She will get her comeuppance in jail. The Sun
  • But just before the nuptials, fate and a little comeuppance from the past threaten the happy couple's future. Not A Day Goes By: Summary and book reviews of Not A Day Goes By by E Lynn Harris.
  • Thus far, it is only in the executive suite and in the stock market that society has witnessed a comeuppance.
  • Among the more baffling parts of this showdown is why Madam Secretary would have invited such a comeuppance in the first place.
  • I love hissing the villainess as she works her evil wiles and cheering when she gets her eventual comeuppance.
  • You think there will be moral comeuppance but it just gets darker and darker. Times, Sunday Times
  • The idea that liberals never understood this until Bush v. Gore, and that now, finally, they are getting their righteous comeuppance, is bizzare. Balkinization
  • She starts off, by design, as an unsympathetic character (hence the titled comeuppance), who, like any newcomer in a Hollywood flick, not only learns to cope well enough (despite the natives) to stay in Japan and grow, but also to recommend to everyone (in a self-important interview in the back of the book) to try living overseas (I agree, of course, but one year abroad hardly makes one an authority on world travel). Debito.org
  • They will enjoy the sight of a cheat getting his comeuppance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Because the stories were true, the comeuppance of criminals (death for all but a few) rang even truer.
  • Some were probably hoping the students would get their comeuppance, but death was more than they deserved.
  • So one can say he tried to lie his way to fame and fortune, and got a much-deserved comeuppance.
  • Retribution should not be a part of what we're talking about. "avengement, avenging, comeuppance, compensation, counterblow, eye for an eye*, just desserts, Attytood
  • I too had a notebook in high school, and got my comeuppance when our "archenemies" stole the notebook from us and thus had access to all of the nasty things that we'd said about them. Exposed
  • The Walford womaniser gets his comeuppance just three days after arriving on the soap. The Sun
  • Before that he'd been an actor, often on radio, playing gangsters who got a violent comeuppance.
  • The central character is a bad man who shoots people and gets his comeuppance.
  • Before that he'd been an actor, often on radio, playing gangsters who got a violent comeuppance.
  • I kept turning the pages, anticipating the comeuppance that he so richly deserved.
  • In his fictions, the destiny is represented by the mysterious nature, the decidability and comeuppance, contingency and coincidence, instinct and desire.
  • Rather than booing, fans recall it was more a wall of silence that greeted his efforts, but they would get their comeuppance soon enough.
  • Indeed, could not the "great vampire squid", Goldman Sachs, end up twisting on a harpoon called comeuppance? Julian Kossoff: After the Humiliation of Rupert Murdoch, Comeuppance for Goldman Sachs?
  • The Swiss miss finally recieved her comeuppance from the Japanese veteran after being up 2 breaks in the third set. WIMBLEDON 2006: Ladies' Quarterfinal Predictions
  • But what you might encounter now is a club that has suffered not a devastating loss, but a jarring comeuppance.
  • Daffy scares everyone with his pranking, but he gets his comeuppance when Granny and the kiddos give him a taste of his own medicine.
  • There's no better entertainment than seeing a bunch of over-paid, pampered prima donnas getting their comeuppance.
  • This club is going to get its comeuppance because you can't go out and buy players just because they have scored six goals in the Belgian league. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps the flesh-eating disease afflicting the characters represents some environmental commentary on man getting his comeuppance from nature?

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