Definitions from Wiktionary (Come back to haunt)
▸ verb: Alternative form of come back to bite [(transitive, figuratively) To cause problems for one at a later time. Said especially of situations that illustrate the irony of human folly because the damage caused by aggression or negligence ultimately also harms the instigator's own interests.]
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▸ verb: Alternative form of come back to bite [(transitive, figuratively) To cause problems for one at a later time. Said especially of situations that illustrate the irony of human folly because the damage caused by aggression or negligence ultimately also harms the instigator's own interests.]
Similar:
come back to bite,
come home to roost,
get back at,
rear one's head,
come after,
get someone's back up,
turn the knife in the wound,
stick in someone's gullet,
stick in someone's throat,
come at,
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