The chickens have come home to roost

Cultural  

1. The consequences of earlier actions are making themselves felt.

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Example Sentences

“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

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

From BBC

“Lebanon has been living on borrowed time, and now the chickens have come home to roost,” said Toufic Gaspard, a Lebanese economist and former adviser at the I.M.F.

From New York Times

"Joe Exotic and Jeff Lowe ran slipshod operations and the chickens have come home to roost."

From Fox News

“Now the chickens have come home to roost.”

From Washington Post