英语词汇comeuppance的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

comeuppance. Whether this expression is an Americanism or not is the subject of some dispute; it is first recorded in America in 1859 and in England some 20 years later, if that proves anything. Comeuppance means “just desserts” or “mer- ited punishment,” and has several dialect versions in different areas, including comings and come-uppings, the British once us- ing come-uppings for a flogging. Possibly the expression come up, “to present oneself for judgment before a tribunal,” fathered the phrase.

词汇	comeuppance
词源	comeuppance. Whether this expression is an Americanism or not is the subject of some dispute; it is first recorded in America in 1859 and in England some 20 years later, if that proves anything. Comeuppance means “just desserts” or “mer- ited punishment,” and has several dialect versions in different areas, including comings and come-uppings, the British once us- ing come-uppings for a flogging. Possibly the expression come up, “to present oneself for judgment before a tribunal,” fathered the phrase.
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