get one's fairing

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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. [18th–19th c.]
    • 1791, Robert Burns, Tam O’Shanter[1], New York: K. Tompkins, published 1874:
      Ah, Tam! ah, Tam! thou’ll get thy fairin’!
      In hell they’ll roast thee like a herrin’!