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