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come home to roost

See: CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST.

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chickens come home to roost

[chickens come home to roost] {informal} Words or acts come back to cause trouble for a person; something bad you said or did receives punishment; you get the punishment that […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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