📔chickens come home to roost
📋Meaning
If chickens are coming home to roost, someone is suffering the unpleasant consequences of their bad actions in the past.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Fred's in hospital with liver problems. I guess the chickens have come home to roost after all those years of heavy drinking.
🗣The chickens are coming home to roost for the executives who committed fraud in the nineties. They're being charged now even though they committed their crimes over ten years ago.
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📋Meaning
If chickens are coming home to roost, someone is suffering the unpleasant consequences of their bad actions in the past.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Fred's in hospital with liver problems. I guess the chickens have come home to roost after all those years of heavy drinking.
🗣The chickens are coming home to roost for the executives who committed fraud in the nineties. They're being charged now even though they committed their crimes over ten years ago.
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