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Verb
get one's fairing (third-person singular simple present gets one's fairing, present participle getting one's fairing, simple past and past participle got one's fairing)
- (Scotland) To get what one deserves.
- Synonym: get what's coming to one
- Coordinate term: have it coming
1791, Robert Burns, Tam O’Shanter, New York: K. Tompkins, published 1874:Ah, Tam! ah, Tam! thou’ll get thy fairin’!
In hell they’ll roast thee like a herrin’!
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