英语词汇“to come home to roost”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. to come home to roost: (of an action, etc.) to recoil unfavourably upon the originator.Probably frequently now understood as containing the infinitive of roost v.¹

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > make a return [verb (intransitive)] > come back on one (of one's own action)

to be threshed with your own flail1490

hoist with his own petard1604

to come home to roost1810

1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama (title page) Curses are like young chicken, they always come home to roost.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice III. ix. iii. 127 The Curse has come home to roost.

1887 J. R. Lowell Democracy & Other Addr. 173 All our mistakes sooner or later surely come home to roost.

1928 R. Church Mary Shelley vi. 69 Debt was..tarnishing the golden happiness of Shelley and Mary. Promissory notes, accepted for other people, came home to roost.

1963 Times 21 Oct. 11/3 It is never right to excuse the breaking of faith..by a government... This breach of covenant..will come home to roost.

1994 Maclean's 31 Oct. 43/3 They created this mythical, idealized family, and now it is all coming home to roost.

单词	to come home to roost
释义	> as lemmas to come home to roost d. to come home to roost: (of an action, etc.) to recoil unfavourably upon the originator.Probably frequently now understood as containing the infinitive of roost v.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > make a return [verb (intransitive)] > come back on one (of one's own action) to be threshed with your own flail1490 hoist with his own petard1604 to come home to roost1810 1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama (title page) Curses are like young chicken, they always come home to roost. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice III. ix. iii. 127 The Curse has come home to roost. 1887 J. R. Lowell Democracy & Other Addr. 173 All our mistakes sooner or later surely come home to roost. 1928 R. Church Mary Shelley vi. 69 Debt was..tarnishing the golden happiness of Shelley and Mary. Promissory notes, accepted for other people, came home to roost. 1963 Times 21 Oct. 11/3 It is never right to excuse the breaking of faith..by a government... This breach of covenant..will come home to roost. 1994 Maclean's 31 Oct. 43/3 They created this mythical, idealized family, and now it is all coming home to roost. extracted from roostn.¹ < as lemmas
随便看	at the great at the gripe at the half at the halves at the hand of at the hands of at the hard at the hard heels at the hardest at the hazard of at the head of at the heart of at the heel of the hunt at the heels of the hunt at the height at the high port at the hinder end of the bargain at the hundred at the instance of at the jump at the large at the last at the last cast at the last gasp at the latest

> as lemmas