the chickens come home to roost

短语

害人害己

发音

AU

别名

come home to roost curses, like chickens, come home to roost

释义与例句

prov.
  1. 1.

    A person's past wrongdoings will return to negatively affect them.

    害人害己

    习语

    Opponents see the latest indictments as a case of the chickens coming home to roost.

词源

19th century. First attested as lies, like chickens, come home to roost, although the slightly later curses, like chickens, come home to roost was more common. Both are often said to be Spanish or Turkish in origin. The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs notes that Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in The Parson's Tale: “And ofte tyme swich cursynge wrongfully retorneth agayn to hym that curseth, as a bryd that retorneth agayn to his owene nest.”

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