What will come home to roost?

[cantatrice]

Cannot remember what it is.

Thanks for your help - it is driving me mad!

[hailthechimp]

Chickens? A rooster? Foghorn leghorn?

[mandimoo]

ladybird ladybird

[cantatrice]

Thanks - chickens did not seem to sound right!

[BillySugger]

Pigeons

[cantatrice]

I think you are right about the pigeons - well done!

[cantatrice]

erm zacsmaster - maybe you are not as clever as you think!

[hailthechimp]

What will come home to roost?

A chav girl thats pregnant for the sixteenth time!

[rcl1]

I must admit that I also thought it was chickens.

[craft1948]

Zacs gone red.......

[ZXR]

It's def chickens NOT pigeons (although they do roost)

Zacs is correct

http://esl.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_17 6.htm

Origins 1390s Chaucer's Parsons Tale

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/6/mes sages/55.html

[craft1948]

I had every confidence in Zacs really.......

[BillySugger]

And for pigeons

http://bellylove.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/the- pigeons-have-come-home-to-roost/

and

http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1550

??

[BillySugger]

Or..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/4933820/Fi rst-time-buyers-come-home-to-roost.html

[BillySugger]

Maybe

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/co ntent/jan2009/db20090130_720141.htm?chan=rss_t opEmailedStories_ssi_5

[giveup]

My gran used to say Curses are like pigeons, they come home to roost