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serve someone right

verb

Definitions

  1. To happen to someone who is thought to deserve it.

    • What, now he wishes he hadn't voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party? Serves him right!
    • "And they counts my money and tickets, when I gets home, to see if I's got the change; and if I han't they half kills me." "And serves you right," said Jane, the pert chambermaid, "if you will take their money to get drunk on."

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see serve, right.

    • If my memory serves me right, we had a similar discussion a few months ago.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA