it serves you right!

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• it serves you right — (from Idioms in Speech) you have got just about what you deserve for your behaviour or actions You took money that ought to have fed starving children. Serve you right! If I had been the father of one of those children, I d have given you… …   Idioms and examples

• It Serves You Right to Suffer — Infobox Album | Name = It Serve You Right to Suffer Type = Album Artist = John Lee Hooker Released = 1966 Recorded = New York City Genre = Blues Length = 33:10 Label = ABC, Impulse! Records Producer = Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5… …   Wikipedia

• it serves someone right (for doing something) — phrase used for saying that you think someone deserves something unpleasant that happens to them ‘I feel awful.’ ‘It serves you right for eating so much.’ Thesaurus: deserving and deservedsynonym to buy somethingsynonym Main entry: serve …   Useful english dictionary

• it serves somebody right (for doing something) — it serves sb ˈright (for doing sth) idiom used to say that sth that has happened to sb is their own fault and they deserve it • Left you, did she? It serves you right for being so selfish. Main entry: ↑serveidiom …   Useful english dictionary

• right — I [[t]ra͟ɪt[/t]] CORRECT, APPROPRIATE, OR ACCEPTABLE ♦ rights, righting, righted (Please look at category 17 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword.) 1) ADJ If something is right, it is correct and agrees… …   English dictionary

• right — /raɪt / (say ruyt) adjective 1. in accordance with what is just or good: right conduct. 2. in conformity with fact, reason, or some standard or principle; correct: the right solution. 3. correct in judgement, opinion, or action. 4. sound or… …  

• if my memory serves me (right) — if my memory serves me ( well/right/correctly/) spoken phrase used for saying that you think you have remembered something correctly He was mayor from 1945 to 1949, if my memory serves me correctly. Thesaurus: ways of talking about memories …   Useful english dictionary

• serve someone right — (of something unpleasant) to be no more than deserved • • • Main Entry: ↑serve * * * be someone s deserved punishment or misfortune it would serve you right if Jeff walked out on you * * * serve someone right see ↑serve, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• serve right — serve (someone) right used to say that someone who has behaved badly deserves a particular punishment, problem, etc. “I hear his wife is divorcing him.” “It serves him right after the way he s treated her.” “He won t even talk to me.” “(It)… …   Useful english dictionary

• as you make your bed, so you must lie upon it — Cf. late 15th cent. Fr. comme on faict son lict, on le treuve, as one makes one’s bed, so one finds it. c 1590 G. HARVEY Marginalia (1913) 88 Lett them..go to there bed, as themselues shall make it. 1640 G. HERBERT Outlandish Proverbs no. 340 He… …   Proverbs new dictionary

• serve one right — phrasal : to deal with one as he deserves : be the just or fitting return for what one is or does they served him right for his thieving felt that his disgrace served him right it serves you right for trying to break into line …   Useful english dictionary