Definition
To receive as a return or reward in the same measure as one's exertions or intentions, in a good or a bad sense; to receive justice or one's just deserts.
Origins
From Galatians 6:7 in the Bible (King James Version; spelling modernized): “Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
In Context
- ""We will reap what we sow; live with what we do not act to change," he said."
See Also
- as you sow, so shall you reap
- bring one's own hide to market
- chickens come home to roost
- every man is the architect of his own fortune
- fuck around and find out
- Leopards Eating People's Faces Party
- like turkeys voting for Christmas
- make one's bed and lie in it
- play stupid games, win stupid prizes
- sow dragon's teeth
- sow the wind, reap the whirlwind
- step on a rake
- stew in one's juices
- what goes around comes around