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chickens come home to roost

Meaning
If chickens are coming home to roost, someone is suffering the unpleasant consequences of their bad actions in the past

For example

Fred's in hospital with liver problems. I guess the chickens have come home to roost after all those years of heavy drinking.

The chickens are coming home to roost for the executives who committed fraud in the nineties. They're being charged now even though they committed their crimes over ten years ago.
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