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get one's fairing

get one's fairing verb: to get what one deserves.

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)

  1. (Scotland) To get what one deserves.
    • Ah, Tam! ah, Tam! thou’ll get thy fairin’!
      In hell they’ll roast thee like a herrin’!1791, Robert Burns, Tam O’Shanter, New York: K. Tompkins, published 1874

Synonyms of get one's fairing

Forms of get one's fairing

third-person singular presentgets one's fairing
present participlegetting one's fairing
past participlegot one's fairing
pastgot one's fairing

Questions about get one's fairing

What does get one's fairing mean?
Get one's fairing means to get what one deserves.
What part of speech is get one's fairing?
Get one's fairing is a verb.
What is the past tense of get one's fairing?
The past tense of get one's fairing is got one's fairing.

Words near get one's fairing in the dictionary

  1. get one's ducks in a row
  2. get one's end away
  3. get one's end in
  4. get one's eye in
  5. get one's eyes off
  6. get one's fairing
  7. get one's feet wet
  8. get one's fill
  9. get one's finger out
  10. get one's fingers burnt
  11. get one's fingers into

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