get one's fairing
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[edit]Verb
[edit]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. [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’!