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come home to roost |
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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 higher taxes. 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 |
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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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