| 单词 | the chickens come home to roost |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe chickens come home to roost c. curses, like chickens, come home to roost and variants: an unkind action will recoil unfavourably on the originator. Also allusively in the chickens come home to roost. Cf. to come home to roost at roost n.1 Phrases 1d.Compare the following quotation, expressing a similar sentiment: c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §620 Swich cursynge wrongfully retorneth agayn to hym þat curseth, as a bryd that retorneth agayn to his owene nest. ΚΠ 1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama (title page) Curses are like young chicken, they always come home to roost. 1900 Shields Daily Gaz. 5 Jan. (Second ed.) Their time will come later, when the Ministerial chickens come home to roost. 1920 Far Eastern Rev. Aug. 392/2 Boycotts, like curses and chickens, come home to roost. 2018 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 24 Oct. 18 The chickens could really come home to roost as climate change deepens and droughts get more intense and more common. < as lemmas |
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