we cannot escape the consequences of our actions We soon discover that lies return to their owner, just as chickens come home to roost.
chickenshit
(See chicken)
count your chickens before they hatch
depend heavily on plans, spend money that you have not received "Politicians have learned not to ""count their chickens"" before the election."
don't count your chickens before they hatch
do not expect all plans to be successful, wait until you get the final results """Look at the sales I'm going to make this month - over 50!"" ""Don't count your chickens... ."""
go to bed with the chickens
Idiom(s): go to bed with the chickens
Theme: EARLY
to go to bed at sundown; to go to bed very early (when the chickens do). • Of course I get enough sleep. I go to bed with the chickens. • Mr. Brown goes to bed with the chickens and gets up with them, too.
count one's chickens before they hatch
Idiom(s): count one's chickens before they hatch
Theme: COUNTING
to plan how to utilize good results of something before those results have occurred. (Frequently used in the negative.) • You're way ahead of yourself Don't count your chickens before they hatch. • You may be disappointed if you count your chickens before they hatch.
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
You must not be too confident that something will be successful.
Don't catch your chickens before they're hatched
This means that you should wait until you know whether something has produced the results you desire, rather than acting beforehand. ('Don't count your chickens until they've hatched' is an alternative.)
When the chickens come home to roost
When a person pays dearly for something bad he or she did in the past, the chickens come home to roost.
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informal Words or acts come back to cause trouble for a person; something bad you said or did receives punishment; you get the punishment that you deserve. Fred's chickens finally came home to roost today. He was late so often that the teacher made him go to the principal. Often used in a short form. Mary's selfishness will come home to roost some day.
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v. phr., informal To depend on getting a profit or gain before you have it; make plans that suppose something will happen; be too sure that something will happen. Usually used in negative sentences. When Jim said that he would be made captain of the team, John told him not to count his chickens before they were hatched.Maybe some of your customers won't pay, and then where will you be? Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
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v. phr., informal To go to bed early at night. On the farm John worked hard and went to bed with the chickens.Mr. Barnes goes to bed with the chickens because he has to get up at 5 A.M.
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