krinkle,
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🐓 "The chickens come home to roost."

This proverb means that a bad deed or unsolved problem will eventually return to the person causing it.

So..., why chickens? Turns out, "Chickens didn't enter the scene until the 19th century".

Origin:
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/chickens-come-home-to-roost.html

By the way, the literal meaning is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_roosting

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