天罰覿面

てんばつてきめん

the certainty of divine punishment; Swift is Heaven's vengeance

Also written 天罰てきめん

Meanings

Noun
the certainty of divine punishment; Swift is Heaven's vengeanceFour-character idiom

Example sentences

天網てんもう恢恢疎うとにして漏もらさずの言葉通ことばどおり、天罰覿面てんばつてきめんだ。

They say fate will catch up with you. That was God's way of punishing him.
この辺へんの意地悪いじわる婆ばあさんが雷かみなりに打うたれて頓死とんししたらしい。まさに天罰覿面てんばつてきめんだとうちの母かあさんが言いう。

It seems the mean old woman that lived around here was struck by lightning and suddenly died. My mother says it's truly a case of the swiftness of Heaven's vengeance.