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
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
an outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically)
Synonym: poetic justice
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Mentioned in
- desert (Idiom)
- comeuppance
- just (Idiom)
- The Valiant Ones (1974 Action Film)
- Un Monde Sans Pitié (1989 Drama Film)
- No good deed goes unpunished
- No penny, no paternoster
- El Gato (1951 Western Film)
- lump
- Good americans when they die go to Paris
- None but the brave deserve the fair
- The Kentuckian (1955 Western Film)
- Kidnapped (1938 Drama Film)
- Seeding of a Ghost (1983 Horror Film)
