‘Chickens Coming Home to Roost'"

Submitted by Arthur Cohn (United States), Mar 19, 2008 at 02:19

I was born in 1935, and I believe that I heard the phrase: ‘Chickens Coming Home to Roost'" since I was a child, way prior to Malcom X's use of it.

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