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✏️ Idioms of the Day ✏️
📚chickens come home to roost
✍🏾Meaning
If chickens are coming home to roost, someone is suffering the unpleasant consequences of their bad actions in the past.
❕For example
🔺Fred's in hospital with liver problems. I guess the chickens have come home to roost after all those years of heavy drinking.
🔺The chickens are coming home to roost for the executives who committed fraud in the nineties. They're being charged now even though they committed their crimes over ten years ago.
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2- Idiom of the Day
📚come up trumps
British English
✍🏾Meaning
If you come up trumps, you succeed in something that you may not have been expected to succeed in.
❕For example
🔺Nicole came up trumps, winning her match despite her injured knee.
🔺John's dad was sure his son would came up trumps, and he did.
➕Note:
The idiom "to turn up trumps" has the same meaning.
💥Origin: From card games in which a card of the suit that is designated "trumps" is of greater value than a card of another suit, so a player with many trumps in his hand has a good chance of winning.
💢Variety
This idiom is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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✏️ Idioms of the Day ✏️
📚chickens come home to roost
✍🏾Meaning
If chickens are coming home to roost, someone is suffering the unpleasant consequences of their bad actions in the past.
❕For example
🔺Fred's in hospital with liver problems. I guess the chickens have come home to roost after all those years of heavy drinking.
🔺The chickens are coming home to roost for the executives who committed fraud in the nineties. They're being charged now even though they committed their crimes over ten years ago.
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2- Idiom of the Day
📚come up trumps
British English
✍🏾Meaning
If you come up trumps, you succeed in something that you may not have been expected to succeed in.
❕For example
🔺Nicole came up trumps, winning her match despite her injured knee.
🔺John's dad was sure his son would came up trumps, and he did.
➕Note:
The idiom "to turn up trumps" has the same meaning.
💥Origin: From card games in which a card of the suit that is designated "trumps" is of greater value than a card of another suit, so a player with many trumps in his hand has a good chance of winning.
💢Variety
This idiom is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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