in for

1. 1.

   certain to get or have

   “he knew he was in for a licking”

   Similarcertain

Questions about in for

What does in for mean?

in for means "certain to get or have".

Is in for a common word?

in for is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.