serve someone right

Meaning: (idiomatic,of an unpleasant event)To happen to someone who is thought todeserveit.What, now he wishes he hadn't voted for theLeopards Eating People's Faces Party?Serveshimright!1851June –1852April,Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Chapter XVIII”, inUncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume(please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.:John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published20 March 1852,→OCLC:"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.""Andserves you right," said Jane, the pert chambermaid, "if you will take their money to get drunk on."; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seeserve,‎right.If my memoryservesmeright, we had a similar discussion a few months ago.

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