Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
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Roost
/ɹust/
Synonyms for "roost" (107 found)
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More general
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
More specific
10 entriesCollocations
10 entriesbird roostpoultry roostroost for the nightroost in treesroost on branchesroost siteroosting behaviorroosting birdsroosting sitetree roost
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
2 entriesroost siteroosting
Translations
29 translations across 25 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πέτευρον noun (place for sleeping birds)
Bikol Central
1 entries- tugdunan noun (place for sleeping birds)
Catalan
1 entries- jóc noun (place for sleeping birds)
Czech
2 entries- hřad noun (place for sleeping birds)
- kurník noun (place for sleeping birds)
Estonian
1 entries- tana noun (place for sleeping birds)
Finnish
1 entries- nukkumapaikka noun (place for sleeping birds)
Galician
1 entries- poleiro noun (place for sleeping birds)
German
1 entries- Nest noun (place for sleeping birds)
Irish
1 entries- fara noun (place for sleeping birds)
Italian
1 entries- pollaio noun (place for sleeping birds)
Japanese
1 entries- 塒 noun (place for sleeping birds)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- vēutīng noun (place for sleeping birds)
Latvian
1 entries- lakta noun (place for sleeping birds)
Macedonian
1 entries- се́дело noun (place for sleeping birds)
Māori
1 entries- tūhunga noun (place for sleeping birds)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- تونك noun (place for sleeping birds)
Polish
1 entries- grzęda noun (place for sleeping birds)
Portuguese
1 entries- poleiro noun (place for sleeping birds)
Russian
1 entries- насе́ст noun (place for sleeping birds)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- spiris noun (place for sleeping birds)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kokošinjac noun (place for sleeping birds)
- кокошињац noun (place for sleeping birds)
Spanish
2 entries- gallinero noun (place for sleeping birds)
- pajarera noun (place for sleeping birds)
Turkish
1 entries- yuva noun (place for sleeping birds)
Ukrainian
1 entries- сі́дало noun (place for sleeping birds)
Walloon
2 entries- djocoe noun (place for sleeping birds)
- djoke noun (place for sleeping birds)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
At home it is Liisa who rules the roost.
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I'm thinking of burning your roost.
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The chickens have come home to roost.
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Showing 4 of 12 available sentences.