have it coming

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   deserve (either good or bad)

   “It's too bad he got fired, but he sure had it coming”

   Broaderdeserve

Questions about have it coming

What does have it coming mean?

have it coming means "deserve (either good or bad)".

Is have it coming a common word?

have it coming is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.