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                            Phrase(s): come back to haunt one [and] return to haunt 
one Fig. [for a bad memory] to recur; for the consequences of a bad decision to affect one negatively later.  •  I never dreamed that a little thing like a traffic ticket could come back to haunt me years later.
                        
                        
 
                        
                            McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs