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• roost — roost1 [ rust ] verb intransitive when birds or BATS roost, they go somewhere to rest or sleep someone s chickens come home to roost or something comes home to roost used for saying that bad actions or mistakes from the past have unpleasant… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• roost — roost1 [ru:st] n [: Old English; Origin: hrost] a place where birds rest and sleep →rule the roost at ↑rule2 (4) roost 2 roost2 v 1.) if a bird roosts, it rests or sleeps somewhere 2.) …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• roost — 1 noun (C) a place where birds rest and sleep see also: rule the roost rule 2 (5) 2 verb (I) 1 if a bird roosts, it rests or sleeps somewhere 2 sb s chickens come home to roost used to say that someone s past mistakes are causing problems for… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• roost — verb Roost is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑bat, ↑hen, ↑owl, ↑pigeon …   Collocations dictionary

• roost — I Australian Slang kick (a football, etc.) very high II Mawdesley Glossary the upper floor in a barn used for storing hay or straw …   English dialects glossary

• chickens come home to roost — used for saying that the bad results of something someone has done are starting to happen or to become clear After years of borrowing, the government s chickens are coming home to roost …   English dictionary

• Saints' Roost Museum — The Saints Roost Museum in Clarendon, Texas, features heirlooms from Panhandle ranches, farms, and businesses as well as a renovated railroad depot and a collection of materials from the Red River War. [… …   Wikipedia

• Robbers Roost — The Robbers Roost was an outlaw hideout in southeastern Utah used mostly by Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch gang in the closing years of the Old West. The hideout was considered ideal because of the rough terrain. It was easily defended,… …   Wikipedia

• curses, like chickens, come home to roost — Also without specific reference to curses, as in quot. 2001 c 1390 CHAUCER Parson’s Tale 1. 620 And ofte tyme swich cursynge wrongfully retorneth agayn to hym that curseth, as a bryd that retorneth agayn to his owene nest. 1592 Arden of Feversham …   Proverbs new dictionary

• someone's chickens come home to roost — someone’s chickens come home to roost something comes home to roost phrase used for saying that bad actions or mistakes from the past have unpleasant results in the present It’s only now that the real problems in London are coming home to roost.… …   Useful english dictionary

• someone's chickens come home to roost — or something comes home to roost used for saying that bad actions or mistakes from the past have unpleasant results in the present It s only now that the real problems in London are coming home to roost …   English dictionary