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Nov. 9, 2014

comeuppance \kuhm-UHP-uhns\ noun 1. Informal. deserved reward or just deserts, usually unpleasant: He finally got his comeuppance for his misbehavior. Quotes It’s hard to conceive a bigger comeuppance than the one Faustus receives at the end of the play, when the clock ticks down on his two-dozen years. -- John J. Miller, "Sympathy for the Devil," The Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2014 Origin Comeuppance comes from the verbal phrase come up meaning "present oneself for judgment before a tribunal." It is an Americanism that gained popularity in mid-1800s.

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