just deserts

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just deserts 的定义

  1. A deserved punishment or reward, as in He got his just deserts when Mary jilted him. This idiom employs desert in the sense of “what one deserves,” a usage dating from the 1300s but obsolete except in this expression.

just deserts 近义词

n. 名词 noun

virtue triumphing over vice

更多just deserts例句

  1. These “Book of Eli” deserts are where the imagined, however bizarre or hideous, can turn undeniably real.
  2. In the just-released USA Today/Suffolk poll, Roberts trails his opponent by five points.
  3. A just-published study in the journal Nature explored how mice reacted to a diet of artificial sweeteners.
  4. They soared along the faces of mountains, over deserts, and out along city streets.
  5. There, abandoned “ghost towns” populate the prairie fields and deserts, serving as a reminder of a not-so-distant past.
  6. And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.
  7. A beau highwayman and a miserable chimney sweeper were to be hanged together at Newgate for their respective deserts.
  8. Again, a husband who drives his wife away from him by his misconduct deserts her as clearly as if he had left her.
  9. No, give me deserts or precipices,—anything fixed and solid is better than this capricious, ever-changing sea.
  10. It was not a place of trade, and was distant a hundred leagues from Chaldæa, and deserts lay between.