comeuppance

Emotional First Aidを読んでいます。
Clearly the friend's resentment had been building up over many months and had reached a boiling point. But he hadn't said a word about feeling burdened by my patient's incessant ruminations. Indeed, none of his friends had. The assaultive friend did receive his comeuppance, however, as he spent the next five hours to the emergency room, listening to my patient replay nasal renditons of the breakup while avoiding sprays of bloody gauze from his nose.
今日取り上げる単語は上の文章に出てきた "comeuppance" です。辞書で意味を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A punishment or fate that someone deserves.: By any reasonable moral reckoning he deserves all the comeuppance of his bad faith.
・Collins Dictionary: If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.: The central character is a bad man who shoots people and gets his comeuppance.
語源も調べます。
・Online Etymology Dictionary: also comeupance, 1859, presumably rooted in verbal phrase come up "present oneself for judgment before a tribunal"
なるほど、"come up" で裁判や調停などで呼び出されて赴く場合にも使われるのですね。
・Collins Dictionary: In law, when a case comes up, it is heard in a court of law.: He is one of the reservists who will plead not guilty when their cases come up.