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Verb

serve someone right

1. Used other than as an idiom: see serve,‎ right.

   If my memory serves me right, we had a similar discussion a few months ago.

2. (idiomatic, Of an unpleasant event) To happen to someone who is thought to deserve it.
   • 1852 -- Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin (Chapter XVIII)

     "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, "if you will take their money to get drunk on."

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