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come home to roost
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Having come home to roost so she will hopefully have a political future, Haley told Republicansvoters that she and Trump agreed on keeping America safe from the Democrats who have “moved so far to the left that they’re putting our freedoms in danger.”
Whether speaking to people from a Mississippi River town in Missouri or others from rural Arizona, Russo said he can make the case that conflicts thousands of miles away rarely remain contained, and impacts do come home to roost domestically — whether it’s the flow of migrants into the U.S. or climate disasters.
"The chickens have come home to roost," he told 5 Live.
In other words, you could finally say that the "terror" of the war on terror had come home to roost.
This year, the chickens have really come home to roost on climate change.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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