get one's fairing
English
Verb
get one's fairing (third-person singular simple present gets one's fairing, present participle getting one's fairing, simple past and past participle got one's fairing)
- (Scotland) To get what one deserves. [18th–19th c.]
- 1791, Robert Burns, Tam O’Shanter, New York: K. Tompkins, 1874,
- Ah, Tam! ah, Tam! thou’ll get thy fairin’!
- In hell they’ll roast thee like a herrin’!
- 1791, Robert Burns, Tam O’Shanter, New York: K. Tompkins, 1874,