to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising · hoist with his own petard

zào jiǎn zì fù

z+ào·4th tonej+iǎn·3rd tonez+ì·4th tonef+ù·4th tone

Idiom

Chain

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