have it coming

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have it coming (third-person singular simple present has it coming, present participle having it coming, simple past and past participle had it coming)

1. (idiomatic) To deserve or merit, as the consequences of one's actions.
   • 1940 February 5, “Manufacturing: Done with Mirrors”, in Time‎, archived from the original on 25 May 2009:

     He was on his first vacation in ten years and he figured he had it coming to him.

   • 2001 October 4, Mary Beard, “11 September”, in London Review of Books‎, volume 23, number 19, →ISSN:

     But when the shock had faded, more hard-headed reaction set in. This wasn’t just the feeling that, however tactfully you dress it up, the United States had it coming.

   • 2007 April 8, Ruth Dudley Edwards, “Kissinger on Black list of witnesses for the defence”, in Irish Independent‎, retrieved January 24, 2010:

     Although one might baulk at giving an 83-year-old a hard time, this particular 83-year-old has it coming.