However, when the law suit ends, the idioms arrive: the chickens come home to roost; [1] the jig is up; [2] the second shoe is about to drop; [3] the cat is out of the bag; [4] the fat lady sings; [5] one sows what one reaps; [6] and, here, so aptly,
the cacophonous wail in the background is that of a piper, warming up and waiting to be paid [7]-- the sum of $ 1,316,535.16, to be precise.
Of course, as just about everybody above mentioned, the weeping and
wailing about this latest «fudging of the data» (the rawness of which should have been a Holy Trust) will be
cacophonous and protracted.