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What (who) is roost - definition
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Roost (disambiguation)
roost
(roosts, roosting, roosted)
1.
A roost is a place where birds or bats rest or sleep.
N-COUNT
2.
When birds or bats roost somewhere, they rest or sleep there.
The peacocks roost in nearby shrubs.
VERB: V prep/adv
3.
If bad or wrong things that someone has done in the past have come home to roost, or if their chickens have come home to roost, they are now experiencing the unpleasant effects of these actions.
Appeasement has come home to roost...
PHRASE: come inflects
4.
If you say that someone rules the roost in a particular place, you mean that they have control and authority over the people there. (INFORMAL)
Today the country's nationalists rule the roost and hand out the jobs.
PHRASE: V inflects
roost
I. n.
Perch.
II. v. n.
1.
Perch.
2.
Lodge, settle.
Examples of use of roost
1. Mr Blair‘s chickens, in particular, have come home to roost.
2. My couch potato chickens have come home to roost.
3. "Rumsfeld rules the roost now." Staff writer Thomas E.
4. Mr Brown‘s Scottish chickens are coming home to roost.
5. "Boeing is ruling the roost on wide bodies," he said.