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- sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
Prov. to start some kind of trouble that grows much larger than you planned. (Biblical.) our enemy has sown the wind by provoking this war, and they will reap the whirlwind when we vanquish them.