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idiomthe chickens (have) come home to roostused in order to say that someone is having to deal with the results of a mistake that they made or something bad that they did in the past:It's easy to take out a loan, but your chickens come home to roost when you lose your job.Today the chickens have come home to roost, and the socially disastrous policies of the last government are having their effect on the lives of ordinary people.
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