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Verb: get one's lumps
Usage: N. Amer, informal
  1. Suffer the results or consequences of one's behavior or actions
    - take one's lumps [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: getting one's lumps, gets one's lumps, got one's lumps

Type of: pay