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Phrase: Come home to roost
Ignored mistakes are like chickens; they will eventually come home to roost.
If you are a city dweller, you may not know that chickens will always come home to roost even if they run away.
During my childhood, we always had laying hens for eggs.
My father let them run around the garden every day, but they would always return to their roost (the place where birds sleep) in the evening.
Uncorrected mistakes or errors, illegal actions, graft, or stupid things you do will come home to roost just like my dad’s chickens.
The phrase come home to roost means your earlier bad actions come back to cause problems, and you are forced to acknowledge the error of your ways.
Once again, the Russians give us a perfect example of how your past deeds come home to roost.
Putin thought he had built up an army to rule the world.
So did we.
Everyone thought the so-called mighty Russian army would cut through Ukraine like a hot knife through butter.
However, the once formidable Red Army is a mere shadow of its former self due to rampant corruption, lack of training, poor materials, overconfidence and lack of planning.
When my dad’s chickens came home to roost, they left valuable eggs that our family of seven could eat.
When Russia’s chickens came home to roost, they sh** all over the place, and now Putin is struggling to clean it up.
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