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[bubosquared]

Yo, somebody help me out, here. Is the expression "get their just deserts"? That sounds odd to me, but. Help? (Sometimes it's a bad thing to be self-taught.)

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[kitsune13.livejournal.com]

It's "just desserts."

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Still makes no sense to me, though. I mean, dessert? Huh?

[kitsune13.livejournal.com]

I think the idea is that dessert is, like, a reward. And so, "your just rewards."

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I always want to write "just deserves" as in getting what you deserve.

I should stop trying to make sense of language.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

There is *never* any point to trying to make sense of English. It's anglo-saxon with Norman French pasted on top of it and a load of vocab stolen from other languages, so it's not allowed to make sense in any way, shape or form, especially not gramatically.