Why do we say The chickens come home to roost? - BookBrowse
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WEBThe chickens come home to roost. Meaning: Eventually, bad deeds or words come back to bite the originator. Background: The idea of bad deeds coming back to curse the originator has been established in the English language since at least the late 1300s, with the earliest known use in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Parson's Tale."
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