“Come home to roost”in other languages

Same idea, different pictures

English sends the consequences home like chickens returning to their perch at night; Chaucer already compared a curse to a bird that flies back to its own nest. Spanish uses the weather: de aquellos polvos, estos lodos, from that dust, this mud. What you stirred up then turns to mud now.

Swedish gets paid for old cheese, få betalt för gammal ost: an old score is settled at last. Where the cheese comes from, nobody knows for sure.