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Home to roost


Home to roost
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If something comes home to roost, it means that something you did or said in the past comes back and causes problems for you.

For example:-

He wrote some stupid things on the forum and now those remarks have come home to roost.

It's sometimes used with chickens, but these birds are pigeons.

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