Examples of 'come home to roost' in a sentence

Meaning of "come home to roost"

This phrase means that the consequences of one's actions or decisions will eventually catch up to them. It implies that negative actions or choices will have negative consequences in the future
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  • To have negative consequences (of an action in the past).

How to use "come home to roost" in a sentence

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come home to roost
Your lies have come home to roost.
I come home to roost.
The chickens had come home to roost.
This strategy may work in the short-term, but eventually the chickens come home to roost.
Chickens always come home to roost.
All your shady backroom deals with organized crime have just come home to roost.
Has finally come home to roost.
Better be careful that your little joke does not come home to roost.
Was bound to come home to roost.
I would argue that those color revolutions have come home to roost.
The chickens come home to roost as it were.
And sometimes the chickens do come home to roost.
Chickens come home to roost for the hot.
Another little birdie come home to roost.
That could come home to roost sometime in the future?

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Your chickens have come home to roost.
Come home to roost yet, al.
The chickens have come home to roost.
This is where all those deeply weird keywords come home to roost.
It will come home to roost.
It never is when the chickens come home to roost.
Chicken done come home to roost.
It is on this site where the funders of creative projects come home to roost.
Seth Cohen has come home to roost.
Well, decades of failed economic and social policies are about to come home to roost.
Katherine Pierce 's chickens come home to roost in the form of wrinkles.
The chickens of the Law of the Excluded Middle have come home to roost.
Tech industry 's password problems come home to roost with Ring security camera hacks.
TERMINATION UNSUCCESSFUL Looks like your freaks have come home to roost.
The chicken 's come home to roost.
I have never been so deadly serious in my life… it will come home to roost.
El pollo 's come home to roost.
President Kennedy never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon.
Now it 's come home to roost.
Still waiting for those chickens to come home to roost.
Go! Look who 's come home to roost.
Unfortunately, the chickens of Obama 's first term have already come home to roost.
Ur chickens have come home to roost.
No, Sheldon, we do not need a steamer . " Looks like that rumpled chicken 's come home to roost.
Well, chickens have not come home to roost yet, Al.
To paraphrase the great Malcolm X, it 's time for this chicken to come home to roost.
Well, chickens have not come home to roost yet, AI.
One of these days, the chickens are gonna come home to roost.
Ah . The chicken 's come home to roost.
But there it was my old friend Meningioma, come home to roost.
Now the chicken has come home to roost.
But actions do have consequences. Chickens always come home to roost.
All the Bedlamites come home to roost.
Seems like for KFC, some of their chickens have come home to roost.
This trade imbalance will eventually come home to roost on the US economy.

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Examples of using Home
He will be home the day after tomorrow
On horseback you could be home in three days
Come home and we can talk about it
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Examples of using Come
It did not even come from his instructions
I come to offer my resignation for my post as chancellor
I just happened to come here for sightseeing
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Examples of using Roost
Birds roost with their own kind
The chickens are all coming home to roost
That comes home to roost at critical moments
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