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come home to roost |
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come home to roost to cause problems for you He said some stupid things and now those remarks were coming home to roost. Usage notes: said of problems that result from your own mistakes, and sometimes used with chickens: Nobody felt sorry for him because it was a case of the chickens coming home to roost. Etymology: based on the habit of chickens and other birds that return to their nesting places How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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``We've underinvested (in infrastructure) for a long time, and now the congestion chickens have come home to roost,'' Jack Kyser, chief economist for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. knows exactly how this will come home to roost in his district. Now, decades later, we might think of the tendency as the illegitimate child of Picasso and Duchamp finally come home to roost. |
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