come back to haunt one

come back to haunt one
come back to haunt one & return to haunt one
Fig. [for a bad memory] to recur; for the consequences of a bad decision to affect one negatively later. •

I never dreamed that a little thing like a traffic ticket could come back to haunt me years later.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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