单词 | come home to roost |
释义 | come home to roost(Of an action in the past) have an unexpected adverse consequence for the person responsible: for the overextended borrowers, the chickens have come home to roost From the proverb ‘curses, like chickens, come home to roost’ See parent entry: roost |
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