自取灭亡 (zì qǔ miè wáng) | Meaning: to court disaster (idiom) | Chinese Idiom with Pinyin & Origin

to walk right into the trap自投罗网zì tóu luó wǎng

make a law only to fall foul of it oneself · get into troubles through schemes established by oneself · caught by one's own laws or device · be hoist by (or with) one's own petard · build a fire under oneself作法自毙zuò fǎ zì bì

to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences · to get one's fingers burnt玩火自焚wán huǒ zì fén

to dig one's own grave自掘坟墓zì jué fén mù

(idiom) to reap what one has sown; to stew in one's own juice自作自受zì zuò zì shòu

the moth flies into the flame · fatal attraction飞蛾扑火fēi é pū huǒ

to court disaster (idiom) · to dig one's own grave

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