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Idioms and Phrases
Be deserved under the circumstances. For example, That punishment serves him right after what he's done to you . It is also put as serves you right , as in It wasn't accepted? Serves you right for applying so late . These idioms use serve in the sense of “treat in a specified manner,” in this case, justly. [Late 1500s]Discover More
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V. punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste*. 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 &c.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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