| 单词 | to come home to roost |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto 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. < as lemmas |
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