| 词汇 | come-home-to-roost |
| 释义 | come home to roostidiom(alsocome back to roost, the chickens come home to roost) If a past action, mistake, etc. comes home to roost, it causes problems at a later date, especially when this is expected or seems deserved: 回报到自己身上，得到恶报 All his earlier mistakes are coming home to roost.他早些时候犯的那些错误现在都报应到他自己身上了。 We're dealing with decades of bad decisions that are coming back to roost now. If we keep under-paying teachers and under-funding schools, eventually the chickens are going to come home to roost. Men may now feel pressure to meet certain beauty standards, but considering what women have endured over the years, I would say the chickens have come home to roost. Causing difficulties for oneself or others ask questions of someone/somethingidiom be a tall orderidiom be asking for troubleidiom be your own worst enemyidiom bother someone with something catch dig make it difficult for someone to do something obduracy open a can of worms overburden pitchfork someone into something sand shoot subject someone/something to something sucker punch swamp tall throw sand in the gearsidiom wrong-foot You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Causing anxiety and worry |
| 随便看 |
反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。