But that's more about the redemptive power of getting one's comeuppance.

"But I would certainly like to see them get their comeuppance. "

Despite this, he would often get his comeuppance in the end.

It did not take long for me to get my comeuppance.

At the end he gets his comeuppance, but in a way least expected by him.

Thus the stage is set for more than a little comeuppance.

But there's comeuppance ahead, right in front of everyone at school, too.

America may be about to get its comeuppance on that score.

"What a wonderful comeuppance for all of us that would be!"

The rest of the country may see it as cosmic comeuppance.

In the second part of the poem, the teacher gets his comeuppance.

"What's happening now is we're getting our comeuppance for what we've been doing over the last 10 years."

He usually says this as a reaction to getting his comeuppance.

You just assume they are going to get their comeuppance eventually.

You must find another way to give him his comeuppance."

If the latter, then the new majority may soon get its own comeuppance.

But in 1927 the public decided it was time the clever young man got his comeuppance.

He got his comeuppance from the Captain the day the master died.

I can only hope they get their comeuppance when numbers fall through the increased fees.

Comeuppance is the guiding theme for much of his work.

Not according to the summer's stock market, where results for the third quarter show that comeuppance will have to wait.

Shake a woman's hand in India and risk a comeuppance.

He says that the two city dwellers got their just comeuppance.

Isn't there enough truth in it to make a comeuppance?

"So I guess you could say, stockholders got their comeuppance today."

I knew you were going to get your comeuppance.