| 词汇 | come home to roost |
| 释义 | Idiom come home to roost chickens come home to roost - if you say that chickens are coming home to roost, you mean that bad or silly things done in the past are beginning to cause problems.The city's budget problems are coming home to roost and everybody is paying with higher taxes. come home to roost1. Literally, of chickens and other such birds, to return to an established place of shelter. Put out some feed because the chickens will come home to roost. 2. To cause problems or have consequences as a result of previous actions. I knew not handing in my homework would be a problem eventually—stuff like that always comes home to roost. I'd be careful before making any rash decisions because they always come home to roost. come home to roostCOMMON If something bad that someone did comes home to roost, it now causes problems for them. You ought to have known that your lies would come home to roost in the end. Mr Cardoso's failures as a minister have finally come home to roost. Note: You can also say the chickens come home to roost, with the same meaning. Politicians can fool some people some of the time, but in the end, the chickens will come home to roost. Note: This expression is taken from the poem `The Curse of Kehama' by the English poet Robert Southey: `Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.' come home to roost To have repercussions or aftereffects, especially unfavorable ones: The consequences of your mistake will eventually come home to roost. |
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