Sentences with come home to roost
come home to roost
C c - Appeasement has come home to roost.
- An evil deed that came home to roost and ruined his life.
- It was only too apparent that his grandfather ruled the roost.
- At some point, he warned, sentiment among foreign investors could turn against America's deteriorating fundamentals, triggering a sharp sell-off in U. S. stocks and bonds that would threaten to throw the economy's expansion into reverse. "Will those risks ever come home to roost? One can't predict with great confidence," said Summers.