It isn't good or bad that chickens come home to roost, they just do.
You open the coop, the chickens leave to forage then, at nightfall, they come home to roost. What this agrarian analogy means is that there is a natural, predictable consequence for actions.
Malcom X and Rev. Wright both used the analogy and both underestimated the consequences. You might say that their chickens came home to roost.
the chickens come home to roost
When your chickens come home to roost it means they come back to their hen houses to rest.
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It means that bad or silly things done in the past are beginning to cause problems.
A hens home is called a coop, a roost or a henhouse.
Malcolm X? He said it was "the chickens coming home to roost" i.e. it was karma; he cited a few incidents and suggested that Kennedy had done a bad job with civil rights; he said, "chickens coming home to roost never made me sad. It always made me glad," suggesting he was glad Kennedy was killed.
The duration of Chickens Come Home is 1800.0 seconds.
Chickens Come Home was created on 1931-02-21.
ANSWER 1: Every chicken comes back to their roost every night. It means the same as the saying "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree." All it means is that everyone comes back to something.ANSWER 2: Chickens scratch around in the barnyard, in the fields and woods during the day. But at night they come home to the hen-house to roost. This saying is comparing a person's evil or foolish deeds to chickens. If a person does wrong, the "payback" might not be immediate. But at some point, at the end of the day, those "chickens" will come home to roost. "One has to face the consequences of one's past actions. In English, the proverb goes back to Chaucer's 'Parson's Tale' (c 1390). It was also know to Terence (about 190-159 B.C.) First attested in the United States in the 'Life of Jefferson S. Batkins' (1871). The proverb is found in varying forms: Curses, like chickens, come home to roost; Sooner or later chickens, come home to roost..."The consequences of ones bad actions will eventually catch up to him or her.It means that bad or silly things done in the past are beginning to cause problems.I believe that it is when someone does something bad they need to take precautions because consequences follow.It is kind of like karma. what goes around comes around.I had to research it for my essay on Malcolm X and he says it about J.F.KENNEDY. He did nothing for black people so Malcolm x says its his own fault because him not doing anything for civil rights had consequences.
The shelter is usually referred to as a coop if it is man made. Some chickens such as bantam, or game chickens seek refuge in trees at night which is a roost. A facility for raising birds in general may be referred to as a rookery.
The duration of Home to Roost is 1800.0 seconds.
Chickens Come Home- - 1931 is rated/received certificates of: USA:Passed (National Board of Review)