serve one right
verb
Roget 922:
be right
etc.
adj.;
stand to reason.
see justice done,
see one righted,
see fair play;
do justice to;
recompense
etc.
(reward)
973;
bold the scales even,
give and take;
serve one right,
put the saddle on the right horse;
give every one his due,
give the devil his due;
audire alteram partem [Lat.].
deserve
etc.
(be entitled to)
924.
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Roget 972:
punish;
chastise,
chasten;
castigate,
correct,
inflict punishment,
administer correction,
deal retributive justice;
cowhide,
lambaste [Slang].
visit upon,
pay;
pay out,
serve out;
do for;
make short work of,
give a lesson to,
serve one right,
make an example of;
have a rod in pickle for;
give it one.
strike
etc.
276;
deal a blow to,
administer the lash,
smite;
slap,
slap the face;
smack,
cuff,
box the ears,
spank,
thwack,
thump,
beat,
lay on,
swinge†,
buffet;
thresh,
thrash,
pummel,
drub,
leather,
trounce,
sandbag,
baste,
belabor;
lace,
lace one's jacket;
dress,
dress down,
give a dressing,
trim,
warm,
wipe,
tund†,
cob,
bang,
strap,
comb,
lash,
lick,
larrup,
wallop,
whop,
flog,
scourge,
whip,
birch,
cane,
give the stick,
switch,
flagellate,
horsewhip,
bastinado,
towel,
rub down with an oaken towel,
rib roast,
dust one's jacket,
fustigate†,
pitch into,
lay about one,
beat black and blue;
beat to a mummy,
beat to a jelly;
give a black eye.
tar and feather;
pelt,
stone,
lapidate†;
masthead,
keelhaul.
execute;
bring to the block,
bring to the gallows;
behead,
decapitate,
guillotine;
decollate;
hang,
turn off,
gibbet,
bowstring,
hang draw and quarter;
shoot;
decimate;
burn;
break on the wheel,
crucify;
empale†,
impale;
flay;
lynch;
electrocute;
gas,
send to the gas chamber.
torture;
put on,
put to the rack;
picket.
banish,
exile,
transport,
expel,
ostracize;
rusticate;
drum out;
dismiss,
disbar,
disbench†;
strike off the roll,
unfrock;
post.
suffer,
suffer for,
suffer punishment;
be flogged.
be executed,
suffer the ultimate penalty;
be hanged
&c.;
come to the gallows,
mount the gallows,
swing [Coll.],
twist in the wind,
dance upon nothing,
die in one's shoes;
be rightly served;
be electrocuted,
fry [Coll.],
ride the lightning [Coll.];
face the firing squad.
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Roget 718:
retaliate,
retort,
turn upon;
pay,
pay off,
pay back;
pay in one's own coin,
pay in the same coin;
cap;
reciprocate
etc.
148;
turn the tables upon,
return the compliment;
give a quid pro quo
etc.
n.,
give as much as one takes,
give as good as one gets;
give and take,
exchange fisticuffs;
be quits,
be even with;
pay off old scores.
serve one right,
be hoist on one's own petard,
throw a stone in one's own garden,
catch a Tartar.
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