come back to haunt one

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come back to haunt one and 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.

See also: back, come, one

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