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单词 to get one's bitters
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to get one's bitters
2. fig., esp. in U.S. colloq. phr. to get one's bitters: to get one's deserts. Obs.
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society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (intransitive)] > deserve well or ill > get one's deserts
to sow the wind and reap the whirlwindc1384
to drink to one's oysters1470
to serve (a person) right1587
to get the wissel of one's groat1721
to get one's fairing1787
to get one's bitters1812
to get one's faring1846
come1896
1812 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1914) IX. 70 You might get your bitters in Baltimore Town.
1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet I. 16 Misfortunes are moral bitters, which frequently restore the healthy tone of the mind.
a1846 in W. T. Porter Quarter Race Kentucky (1846) 194 The seal soon got his bitters, and the captin cut a big hunk off the tail eend.
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