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He got his comeuppance when his council decided, at long last, to make a rate.
I hope that they will get their comeuppance.
This isn't the expected tale of a grasping, gold digger who gets her comeuppance.
In true genre tradition, the alien gets its come-uppance faced with human ability to reason logically.
Like all bad guys though, he eventually gets his comeuppance.
In the end, the girl and boy get together and the villain gets his comeuppance.
As a result, they were in constant battles with one another, with each in turn getting their comeuppance for pranks which were often quite violent.
He usually says this as a reaction to getting his comeuppance.
He tried it on and he got his comeuppance.
He also suffers an ironic comeuppance from a dentist he has cuckolded.
He gets his comeuppance towards the end, his dubious past revealed and is imprisoned.
He says that the two city dwellers got their just comeuppance.
However, the girlfriend gets her comeuppance when the man she cheated on her previous boyfriend with ends up cheating on "her" with another woman.
At the same time, there are many out dated ideas in this book, such as feudalism and superstition, comeuppance and ideas of fatalism, along with some explicit love scenes.
Stories were generally moralistic in tone, with long-suffering heroines finally achieving happiness, while villainous relatives or girls who were liars, cheats and bullies received their comeuppance.
