11/10/2004
Just desserts definition
I decided to break out of the left turn only lane to cut off an old maroon Volvo on Beacon street as I went to drop Kim off and I yelled out "Just Desserts". I did this because three blocks earlier the Volvo had refused to let me into his lane as I was stuck behind a van that was double parked in from of the B&D Deli. Kim asked me what Just Desserts meant and I explained to her that it was an idiom that probably comes from PBS specials that take place in the 1700s when people say "Well he got his just desserts" after an evil character befell a great harm. It has something to do with "come uppances" which serve a similar purpose. But Kim didn't believe me. She didn't think it was an idiom at all. She thought maybe the right idiom could be just deserves or justice is served but that "Just Desserts" doesn't make any sense at all. So when I got home I asked Sarah and she corroborated that it likely means something similar to come uppances. I looked online but counldn't find a definition or an origin. I have to admit I didn't search that hard. Where would such an idiom come from? And where did "come uppances" come from. It seems like a big cosmic idiom joke that I would speak nonsense when passing another car. I guess I got my come uppances.


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