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English
Pronunciation
Verb
serve someone right
- (idiomatic, Of an unpleasant event) To happen to someone who is thought to deserve it.
- 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin (Chapter XVIII)
- "And they counts my money and tickets, when I gets home, to see if I's got the change; and if I han't they half kills me."
- "And serves you right," said Jane, the pert chambermaid, "if you will take their money to get drunk on."
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see serve, right.
- If my memory serves me right, we had a similar discussion a few months ago.
Translations
happen to someone who deserves it
serves you right!
- Arabic: يخدم لكم الحق
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 抵死 (dai2 sei2)
- Mandarin: 活該/活该 (zh) (huógāi), 活该 (zh) (huógāi)
- Czech: komu patřit (cs)
- French: bien fait ! (fr)
- German: geschieht dir recht!
- Greek: καλά να πάθεις (kalá na pátheis), καλά να πάθετε (kalá na páthete)
- Hungarian: megérdemled!, úgy kell neked!
- Italian: ti sta bene!
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Japanese: 様を見ろ! (ざまをみろ!, zama-o miro!)
- Malay: padan muka!
- Maori: kaitoa!
- Polish: dobrze Ci tak! m or f, masz na co zasłużyłeś! m, masz na co zasłużyłaś! f, sam jesteś sobie winien! m, sama jesteś sobie winna! f
- Portuguese: bem feito!
- Russian: подело́м тебе́! (podelóm tebé!), так тебе́ и на́до! (tak tebé i nádo!), сам винова́т! (sam vinovát!) (to a man), сама́ винова́та! (samá vinováta!) (to a woman)
- Spanish: ¡te está bien empleado!
- Swedish: rätt åt (någon)
- Thai: สมน้ำหน้า (th) (sǒm-nám-nâa)
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