To get one’s come-up-with means to meet with one’s deserts, more or less unpleasantly. A New-England expression.—Dialect Notes, iii. 184.
1869. The way he got come up with by Miry was too funny for anything.—Mrs. Stowe, ‘Mis’ Elderkin’s Pitcher.’
1896. I can give him his come-up’ans if he goes to foolin’ around, listenin’.—Ella Higginson, ‘Tales from Puget Sound,’ p. 155.
1897. Well, I did get my come-uppings that time.—W. D. Howells, ‘Landlord at Lion’s Head,’ chap. xxi.
1897. She had merely got her come-uppings, when all was said.—Id., chap. xlv.
