get one's

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1. Get one's due punishment or reward, as in If they put off their schoolwork to go the ball game, sooner or later they'll get theirs , or The union members were prepared to go on strike; they were determined to get theirs . The punishment version is earlier, dating from about 1900.

2. Be killed, as in “He'd got his . I knew it by the way his head rolled in my hands” (Rudyard Kipling, Diversity of Creatures , 1913). This usage originated in the military. [c. 1900]

get one's

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