Usually means: Suffer consequences of one's actions.
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  1. reap the whirlwind: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. reap the whirlwind: Wiktionary
  3. reap the whirlwind: Dictionary.com
  4. Reap the whirlwind (phrase), Reap the whirlwind: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Reap the Whirlwind: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Reap the Whirlwind: Encyclopedia

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  1. reap the whirlwind: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (reap the whirlwind)

verb:  (idiomatic) To suffer bad consequences for one's actions.
verb:  Ellipsis of sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

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