comeuppance

comeuppance

englanti
  1. ansaittu lopputulos (hyvä tai paha)

Esimerkkejä:

uppity actor gets his comeuppance

Synonyymisanakirja

comeuppance

seuraus, jälkivaikutus, ansaittu seuraus.

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Englannin sanakirja

comeuppance (englanti > suomi)

  1. rangaistus

comeuppance englanniksi

  1. A negative outcome which is justly deserved.

  2. 1883, Albion Winegar Tourgée, ed., The Continent; an illustrated weekly magazine, v 3.

  3. So when Brown's second wife turned out a reg'lar ternygrunt, I wa'n't in no wise upset, for he needed a comeuppance, an' he got it in her.
  4. 1918, w:Booth Tarkington|Booth Tarkington, s:The Magnificent Ambersons/Chapter X|The Magnificent Ambersons, ch 10.

  5. The Sunday edition of the principal morning paper even expressed some bitterness under the heading, "Gilded Youths of the Fin-de-Siecle"--this was considered the knowing phrase of the time, especially for Sunday supplements--and there is no doubt that from certain references in this bit of writing some people drew the conclusion that Mr. George Amberson Minafer had not yet got his comeuppance, a postponement still irritating.
  6. 1958, “Yankee Comeuppance in a Lousy Inning”, in w:Life (magazine)|Life, v 45, n 15 (October 13), p 34.

  7. The Yankees got their comeuppance in Milwaukee when the Braves piled up a record score for the first inning of a World Series game.
  8. 2004, Peter Hunt, Sheila G. Bannister Ray, eds., International Companion Encyclopedia of Childrens Literature'', p 862.

  9. (..) in the anonymous A New Gift for Children (1750), perhaps America's first secular storybook, and its tales of children who are good and merit rewards, and tales of children who are otherwise and receive their comeuppances.
  10. (quote-journal)|date=30 October 2014|passage=Its main character, Henry (Mr. w:Ewan McGregor|Ewan McGregor), is a successful, intellectual dramatist who seems quite capable of churning out fizzy, challenging works about brilliant but ambivalent revolutionaries, philosophers, etc. (..) But this cleverer-than-thou creature gets his comeuppance in "w:The Real Thing (play)|The Real Thing," showing that a very human heart – just like those possessed by the less sesquipedalian – beats beneath his fancy words.

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