come home to roost

基本解释

• 得到惡報，報應；歸還原主

英汉例句

雙語例句

• Now their fears have come home to roost, with Italy or Spain his preferred destination.
  現在他們的擔憂成爲了現實，意大利或西班牙將成爲他理想的下一站。
• You should not have sold the car in that unsafe condition; sooner or later your misdeeds will come home to roost.
  你不該把那輛不安全的車賣掉，你的不耑行爲遲早會得到報應。
• Chickens eat bugs, forage for themselves, and come home to lay their eggs if given a safe and private roost.
  此後，雞喫蟲子， 自己搜尋食物，如果給它們一個安全和私有的巢，它們還會廻到家産蛋。
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原聲例句

• Sometimes her chickens come home to roost.

權威例句

• But years of torrid growth in executive pay have, in my opinion, finally come home to roost.
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• Make sure they know that they do not act with impunity, and that the chickens will eventually come home to roost.
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• In hindsight, this period of low interest rates, easy credit and loose regulation contributed to a series of dangerous bubbles that would come home to roost.
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词组短语

短語

• chickens come home to roost 遭到報應;自食其果;受到報應
• Curses come home to roost 繙譯;害人害己
• chicken come home to roost 那惡果

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