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If you leave the hound of the Baskervilles and its owner unpunished, they might come back to haunt you ... "
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle


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come back to haunt
idiom
: to cause problems for (someone) in the future
a decision that may come back to haunt us


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Some 12 months later, however, a concession that will see Dembele's €100 million ($110.5 million) release clause reduced to a paltry €50 million ($55 million) this summer could come back to haunt Barca.
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