consequences

• Take your medicine

  To accept an unpleasant but necessary consequence, punishment, or responsibility.

• Pay the piper

  To face the unavoidable and often negative consequences of one's past actions or decisions.

• Pandora's box

  A source of extensive and unforeseen troubles or problems once opened or unleashed.

• You can't unring a bell.

  Once something has been said or done, its impact or consequences cannot be undone or reversed.

• chickens come home to roost

  Past wrongdoings or mistakes will eventually return to negatively affect the person who committed them.

• digging their own grave

  To bring about one's own downfall or ruin through one's own foolish or harmful actions.

• It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good

  Even negative or unfortunate events often bring some benefit to someone.

• Opening Pandora's Box

  To perform an action that seems innocent but ultimately unleashes a multitude of unforeseen and severe problems.

• Throw gasoline on the fire

  To make a bad or already tense situation significantly worse.

• Make a bad situation worse

  To take an action that exacerbates existing difficulties or problems, often unintentionally.

• To make a momentous decision

  To choose a course of action that has significant, long-lasting, and often life-altering consequences.