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to invite trouble

引火烧身
yǐn huǒ shāo shēn
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(idiom) to reap what one has sown; to stew in one's own juice自作自受zì zuò zì shòuto 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