APAD: The chickens come home to roost.

Eventually, bad deeds or words come back to bite the originator.

 

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I first heard the karmic expression in the movie "Malcolm X."

 

    Reporter: Mr. X. Don't you even feel a bit of remorse, saddened by President

    Kennedy's assassination?

 

    X: Well sir, I don't think anyone here will deny that when you send chickens

    out in the morning from your barnyard, those chickens will return that

    evening to your barnyard, not your neighbor's barnyard. I think this is the

    prime example of the devil's chickens coming back home to roost. That the

    chikens he sent out, the violence that he's perpetrated here and abroad, be

    it the four children in Birmingham or Medgar Evers, or in Africa. I think

    the same violence has come home to claim one of their own. Being a farm boy

    myself, chickens coming home to roost never made me sad. In fact, it only

    made me glad.

 

It was political suicide. Next, Malcolm was gagged and kicked out of the Nation

of Islam. Before long, he was himself assassinated.

I've seen this but didnt get the point what's bad about

roosters roost from home?

Nothing bad in itself, I think. Only culture made it so.

and it's this kind of sayings that trip me up :-)

somewhat comparable2Crime does't pay? eventually got

中文版：牝鸡司晨，惟家之索。

caught up by the consequences-come home to roost?

Philosophical question: back to where it comes from:))

Could be but the connection confuses me more:-)

What the #$%^!? does that mean?

Sure. We all do. Dust to dust ... :-)

Google 之

Have faith, lord have mercy, Jesus is our Savior

有两个字几乎不认识

OK. Male chauvinistic fear-mongering hogwash :-)

I thought you a non-believer. A change-of-heart in the

past 12 hours?

好对应。中西方在这一点上有共识，都认为报晓打鸣是公鸡的责任，哈哈哈！

'chickens' shouldn't be understood as 牝鸡!

This thread confused the hell out of me! :-)

Im a believer believe fearing the forces beyong my cognition

倦鸟知还

You really know how to drive someone crazy, don't you? :-)))

好久没学英文了，啥意思？蛤蟆跳井：）

天鹅下蛋！No. I'm not going to fall for it anymore :-)))

蛤蟆跳井的意思是“不懂”。就是说你说的那句英文我没懂～ ：）

出来混迟早要还的？

Okay. 感觉倦鸟知还和因果报应实在不一样 …

Much better than 倦鸟知还, I think:-)

Welcome back to play APAD!

At work. No time to read the details at first：）原来语气大不同：）

Watch "Malcolm X" and get a firsthand feel.

It's a great movie, btw, if you haven't watched it.

哈哈哈

I’m still not sure what’s the meaning of this proverb.

please Forgive my ignorance!

因果报应, 种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。

多行不义必自毙.

It is a hard one, but apparently popular in the US.

Thanks. I’m wondering how the meaning was derived.

The regularity of the chickens' routine might have inspired.

But I don't really know. My source didn't say.

哈哈哈

白天加班，没仔细看你的原帖。

即兴发挥了一下想象。想到《尚书》里的那句话了。