come home to roost

Example Sentences

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“The chickens are going to come home to roost and these companies will pay more sustainably over time,” Franklin said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

This is a team of players who are simply not good enough without exception, and that lies with the board, so all in all, the chickens come home to roost.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

"Both entities - their banking strategies were risky. That’s a fair statement. The risk has come home to roost," said Galvin.

From Reuters • Mar. 30, 2023

Now those chickens have come home to roost.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2023

Though, on the one hand, he was taken by surprise, on the other he knew, had known, with an ancient instinct, that one day History’s twisted chickens would come home to roost.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy