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come home to roost en · VERB

(idiomatic) To have negative consequences (of an action in the past).
- At some point, he warned, sentiment among foreign investors could turn against America's deteriorating fundamentals, triggering a sharp sell-off in U.S. stocks and bonds that would threaten to throw the economy's expansion into reverse. "Will those risks ever come home to roost? One can't predict with great confidence," said Summers. 2005 February 25, Paul Blustein, “Foreign Investment^s Flip Side; U.S. Trade Deficit Swells Along With Consumption, Debt”, in Washington Post:

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coming home to roost	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
came home to roost	Tense=Past		lexicographic
come home to roost	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
comes home to roost	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
the chickens come home to roost		alternative	lexicographic