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come home to roost

come home to roost
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [kuhm hohm too roost]
    • /kʌm hoʊm tu rust/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [kuhm hohm too roost]
    • /kʌm hoʊm tu rust/

Definitions of come home to roost words

  • phrase come home to roost If bad or wrong things that someone has done in the past have come home to roost, or if their chickens have come home to roost, they are now experiencing the unpleasant effects of these actions. 3
  • noun come home to roost to have unfavourable repercussions 3
  • noun come home to roost to have repercussions, esp. disagreeable ones; boomerang 3
  • noun come home to roost a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night. 1
  • noun come home to roost a large cage, house, or place for fowls or birds to roost in. 1
  • noun come home to roost a place for sitting, resting, or lodging. 1
See all 11 definitions of come home to roost

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Origin of come home to roost

First appearance:

before 1100
One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1100; Middle English roost (noun), Old English hrōst; cognate with Middle Dutch roest

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Parts of speech for Come home to roost

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Come home to roost

come home to roost popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for come home to roost

verb come home to roost

  • return — to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work.
  • reverse — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
  • rebound — to bound or spring back from force of impact.
  • ricochet — the motion of an object or a projectile in rebounding or deflecting one or more times from the surface over which it is passing or against which it hits a glancing blow.
  • react — to act in response to an agent or influence: How did the audience react to the speech?
All 10 Synonyms of come home to roost

Antonyms for come home to roost

verb come home to roost

  • meet — greatest lower bound
  • work — Henry Clay, 1832–84, U.S. songwriter.
All 2 Antonyms of come home to roost

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