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curses, like chickens, come home to roost

curses, like chickens, come home to roost is the alternative form of the chickens come home to roost.

Meaning of the chickens come home to roost

Proverb

the chickens come home to roost

  1. (idiomatic) A person's past wrongdoings will return to negatively affect them.
    • Never were truer words than the Spanish proverb, ‘All lies, like chickens, come home to roost.’1846, Lydia Maria Child, The Mother's Book, C.S. Francis & Co. (6th ed., 1st ed. from 1844), page 98.

Questions about curses, like chickens, come home to roost

What is curses, like chickens, come home to roost the alternative form of?
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost is the alternative form of the chickens come home to roost.

Words near curses, like chickens, come home to roost in the dictionary

  1. curses like a pagan
  2. curses like a sailor
  3. curses like a trooper
  4. curses of Cain
  5. curses out
  6. curses, like chickens, come home to roost
  7. cursest
  8. curseth
  9. cursetor
  10. cursetors
  11. curseword

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