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When the chickens come home to roost.
When a person pays dearly for something bad he or she did in the past, the chickens come home to roost.
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The chickens will come home to roost.
Dr. Sushil Wadhwani, of Wadhwani Asset Management in London, says, "What you've got now is huge asset-market distortions, and one of these days, the chickens will come home to roost, and when they do, there'll be huge opportunity".
Yields will fall and the chickens will come home to roost.
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"Ultimately, those chickens will come home to roost".
That means someday ag's water pollution chickens really will come home to roost.
Under Trump, this will come home to roost.
The chickens will eventually come home to roost, and the Venezuelan economy will probably crash next year.
Will the chickens come home to roost upon me and my big mouth?
By the time, the chickens come home to roost, the executives have moved on to newer pastures.
It seems to imply that some of what counts as shipments may look like a strong position, but when it will come down to sales the chickens may come home to roost.
Now the chickens have come home to roost".
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