come home to roost

1. see chickens come home to roost.

Example Sentences

Chickens tend to come home to roost, though.

From BBC

“State law and case law both state the board has no say in the budget once it’s allocated to the LASD,” he told The Times in an email, “but the board simply ignored the law to sabotage my operations — and now the chickens have come home to roost.”

From Los Angeles Times

Whether speaking to people from a Mississippi River town in Missouri or others from rural Arizona, Russo said he can make the case that conflicts thousands of miles away rarely remain contained, and impacts do come home to roost domestically — whether it’s the flow of migrants into the U.S. or climate disasters.

From Los Angeles Times

"The chickens have come home to roost," he told 5 Live.

From BBC

In other words, you could finally say that the "terror" of the war on terror had come home to roost.

From Salon