Last week I quoted a wise West Marlborough resident as observing that "the hens have come home to roost" with regard to the township's serious financial problems, which might require the supervisors to enact a 0.5 percent earned income tax.
Several readers have said they don't understand that old country saying. The online Free Dictionary gives a good explanation:
"If you say that chickens are coming home to roost, you mean that bad or silly things done in the past are beginning to cause problems."
As Sherlock Holmes said in "The Empty House": The parallel is exact.
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