reap the whirlwind

Speech parts

1. reap the whirlwind - Verb

2. reap the whirlwind - Phrase

Meaning

Ellipsis of sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

(idiomatic) To suffer bad consequences for one's actions.

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Examples

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. Frederick Douglass

They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind. Arthur Travers Harris

Do good to them that hate you" (an exhortation presumably intended for the capitalist as well as for the laborer), another statement of the same rule is, "They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind." A. J. Muste

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind. Scottish Proverb

He that sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind. English Proverb

Words in the phrase

reap the whirlwind

Close letter words and terms

reap financial reward reap hook reap the harvest reap what one sows reap-silver reap-time