chickens come home to roost your past mistakes or wrongdoings will eventually be the cause of present troubles.
☞ This phrase comes from the proverb curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
1997Arundhati RoyThe God of Small Things He knew, had known, that one day History's twisted chickens would come home to roost.
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