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chickens come home to roost |
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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. There was too much greed in the past, and now the chickens are coming home to roost with crime and corruption soaring. |
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Tirelessly forging interconnections, securing investment, fostering creativity, directing actors and nursing their egos, King has now long been a backstage director without whom the stage itself would not exist--without whom for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, What the Wineseuers Buy, When the Chickens Come Home to Roost, and other key theatrical productions would, conceivably, never have premiered. And though the day of reckoning will come, they figure they will be long out of town when the chickens come home to roost. At that time Weisbrot's chickens come home to roost, with only two ways to keep Social Security commitments - either raise Social Security taxes or print more worthless Federal Reserve paper money - probably both. |
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