It serves her/him/you right!

informal

Definition

› something you say about a bad thing which has happened to a person and which they deserve: So she left him, did she? Serves him right! rightness noun [U]

(Definition of It serves her/him/you right! from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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