come back to bite

• come back to haunt

come back to bite (third-person singular simple present comes back to bite, present participle coming back to bite, simple past came back to bite, past participle come back to bite)

1. (transitive, figuratively) to cause problems for one at a later time.

   Synonyms: bite in the arse, bite in the ass, come back to bite in the ass

• come home to roost
• come back to haunt

• “come back to bite sb” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• “come back to bite one”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.