Which should you use, come home to roast or come home to roost? The idiom somebody’s chickens come home to roost or something comes home to roost is used for saying that past mistakes or actions return to cause problems.
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Our folly has come home to roost.
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The phrase come home to roast is incorrect.
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The chickens have come home to roast.
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| Correct: |
The chickens have come home to roost.
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