单词 | just deserts |
释义 | just desertsSEE SYNONYMS FOR just deserts ON THESAURUS.COM 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. Words nearby just desertsjust about, just a minute, just as, just as soon, justaucorps, just deserts, juste-milieu, just folks, just for the record, justice, justice court 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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