The phrase "it serves him right" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to express that someone is receiving the consequences of their own actions. It can also be used to show satisfaction or agreement with the outcome of a situation. Example: After constantly skipping class and not studying for exams, it serves him right that he failed the class.
The conservative justice is saying, with irony in the fire, that it serves him right for straying from strict construction.
It serves him right". Their tempers simmered for a month before they decided to head back to the farm, where their wives were looking after the rice crop.
George Will says that Obama is "being unfairly blamed" for the BP crisis and it "serves him right," because Obama's been a big fan of central government and competence and now, guess what, concentrating experts in the government hasn't solved this problem.
David Mellor was a cad who deserved what was coming to him after preaching family values and having an affair with Antonia de Sancha, so Clifford simply made up the bit about him having sex in his Chelsea top because it served him right.
"Wouldn't it serve him right?" And then: "I became aware of myself from the young man's perspective my shabby sealskin boots, the cerise snowflake pattern around the top of my thick Norwegian socks, the thin lace trim along the hem of my nightdress.
I say it served him right, but now I'm a little curious: anyone here have their iPod unlawfully taken from them?
"If someone tried to reach out to neighbors, to tell them, 'God, Billy's in trouble over there,' they might have said, 'Well, it serves him right..
Fifteen years of insecure anonymity followed, until he was described by the historian Andrew Boyle, named by the satirical magazine Private Eye, and denounced from on high by Margaret Thatcher: "And it damn well serves him right".
If the EU question derails his premiership, as it did those of John Major, Margaret Thatcher and – along with the once mighty miners – Ted Heath, it will serve him right.
