curses, like chickens, come home to roost

== English == === Proverb === curses, like chickens, come home to roost Alternative form of the chickens come home to roost. 1850, speech of Thomas W. Gibson, in H. Fowler, Report of the Debates and Proceedings of the Convention for the Revision of the Constitution of the State of Indiana, Indianapolis, page 448. 1860, Timothy Shay Arthur, "Worse Enemies than Lions and Tigers", in Shadows and Sunbeams, J.W. Bradley, page 19. ==== Translations ====