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Poetic justice

poetic justice
If you describe something bad that happens to someone as poetic justice, you mean that it is exactly what they deserve because of the things that that person has done. N-UNCOUNT
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1.
   noun  Date: circa 1890 an outcome in which vice is punished and virtue rewarded usually in a manner peculiarly or ironically appropriate ...
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
  1. идеальная справедливость ...
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3.
  ~ n a situation in which someone is made to suffer for something bad they have done, in a way that seems perfectly suitable or right  (After being bullied by her for so long, it struck me as poetic justice that she was now being victimized.) ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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