- come home to roost
- See: CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
come home to roost
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come home to roost — phrasal : to return by way of retribution * * * come home to roost 1. To recoil upon oneself (the chickens have come home to roost one s actions have had unpleasant consequences for oneself) 2. To return to a place (usu after travel) in order to… … Useful english dictionary
come home to roost — chickens come home to roost if you say that chickens are coming home to roost, you mean that bad or silly things done in the past are beginning to cause problems. The city s budget problems are coming home to roost and everybody is paying with… … New idioms dictionary
come home to roost — See: CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST … Dictionary of American idioms
come\ home\ to\ roost — See: chickens come home to roost … Словарь американских идиом
come home to roost — See chickens come home to roost … English idioms
come home to roost — verb Of adverse consequences that had been apparently escaped, to return to the place of origin. Opponents see the latest indictments as a case of chickens coming home to roost … Wiktionary
curses, like chickens, come home to roost — Also without specific reference to curses, as in quot. 2001 c 1390 CHAUCER Parson’s Tale 1. 620 And ofte tyme swich cursynge wrongfully retorneth agayn to hym that curseth, as a bryd that retorneth agayn to his owene nest. 1592 Arden of Feversham … Proverbs new dictionary
someone's chickens come home to roost — someone’s chickens come home to roost something comes home to roost phrase used for saying that bad actions or mistakes from the past have unpleasant results in the present It’s only now that the real problems in London are coming home to roost.… … Useful english dictionary
someone's chickens come home to roost — or something comes home to roost used for saying that bad actions or mistakes from the past have unpleasant results in the present It s only now that the real problems in London are coming home to roost … English dictionary
chickens come home to roost — {informal} Words or acts come back to cause trouble for a person; something bad you said or did receives punishment; you get the punishment that you deserve. * /Fred s chickens finally came home to roost today. He was late so often that the… … Dictionary of American idioms
