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.

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• I've seen this but didnt get the point what's bad about -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:00:29

• roosters roost from home? -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:01:17

• Nothing bad in itself, I think. Only culture made it so. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:05:31

• and it's this kind of sayings that trip me up :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:07:34

• somewhat comparable2Crime does't pay? eventually got -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:10:03

• caught up by the consequences-come home to roost? -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:11:09

• Could be but the connection confuses me more:-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:17:16

• 中文版：牝鸡司晨，惟家之索。 -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:10:59

• What the #$%^!? does that mean? -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:17:50

• Google 之 -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:21:22

• OK. Male chauvinistic fear-mongering hogwash :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:45:36

• 有两个字几乎不认识 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:34:54

• 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！ -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 11:36:15

• 'chickens' shouldn't be understood as 牝鸡! -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 12:12:16

• This thread confused the hell out of me! :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 12:12:47

• 哈哈哈 -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 18:38:03

• 哈哈哈 -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (289 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 20:06:27

• Philosophical question: back to where it comes from:)) -卫宁- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:12:03

• Sure. We all do. Dust to dust ... :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:20:23

• Have faith, lord have mercy, Jesus is our Savior -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:23:49

• I thought you a non-believer. A change-of-heart in the -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:48:07

• past 12 hours? -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 10:48:32

• Im a believer believe fearing the forces beyong my cognition -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 13:18:42

• 倦鸟知还 -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 13:56:10

• You really know how to drive someone crazy, don't you? :-))) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 14:07:30

• 好久没学英文了，啥意思？蛤蟆跳井：） -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 14:23:35

• 天鹅下蛋！No. I'm not going to fall for it anymore :-))) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 14:35:50

• 蛤蟆跳井的意思是“不懂”。就是说你说的那句英文我没懂～ ：） -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 14:41:04

• Okay. 感觉倦鸟知还和因果报应实在不一样 … -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 17:31:35

• Welcome back to play APAD! -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 17:34:43

• 出来混迟早要还的？ -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 16:02:20

• Much better than 倦鸟知还, I think:-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 17:32:59

• At work. No time to read the details at first：）原来语气大不同：） -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 17:41:13

• Watch "Malcolm X" and get a firsthand feel. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 17:55:22

• It's a great movie, btw, if you haven't watched it. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 17:56:12

• 哈哈。一样一样哒～～ -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/15/2023 postreply 05:12:26

• I’m still not sure what’s the meaning of this proverb. -方外居士- ♂ (37 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 18:41:15

• 因果报应, 种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。 -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 19:05:32

• 多行不义必自毙. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 19:06:20

• It is a hard one, but apparently popular in the US. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 19:10:12

• Thanks. I’m wondering how the meaning was derived. -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 19:28:54

• The regularity of the chickens' routine might have inspired. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 19:41:19

• But I don't really know. My source didn't say. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2023 postreply 19:41:44