OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 44767

serve someone right

Meanings (ES + gloss)
estarle bien empleado • habérselo buscado • habérselo merecido
To happen to someone who is thought to deserve it.
"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,…
What, now he wishes he hadn't voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party? Serves him right!
¡te está bien empleado!
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see serve, right.
If my memory serves me right, we had a similar discussion a few months ago.
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