When times get tough and these chickens come home to roost, she will have "moved on to better things."

And tonight that latter chicken was coming home to roost.

Yes, the chicken comes from France, and so do many of the cheeses.

I think it's a hard price to pay, but the truth is that the chickens are coming home to roost.

But in the late 1980's, the chickens came home to roost.

It's hard to know here whether the chicken came first, or the egg.

I see that the chickens are finally coming home to roost.

The chickens, as they say, are now coming home to roost.

IN advertising, there's no question that the chicken came before the egg.

The chickens of the first world war are coming home to roost.