搬起石头砸自己的脚 (搬起石頭砸自己的腳)
bān qǐ shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎo
Pinyin

Definition

搬起石头砸自己的脚 (搬起石頭砸自己的腳)
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bān qǐ shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎo
  1. to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom)
  2. hoisted by one's own petard

Related Words (20)

de
  1. 1 of
  2. 2 ~'s (possessive particle)
  3. 3 (used after an attribute)
  4. 4 (used to form a nominal expression)
  5. 5 (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
zì jǐ
  1. 1 oneself
  2. 2 one's own
yī qǐ
  1. 1 in the same place
  2. 2 together
  3. 3 with
  4. 4 altogether (in total)
lái zì
  1. 1 to come from (a place)
  2. 2 From: (in email header)
gè zì
  1. 1 each
  2. 2 respective
  3. 3 apiece

Idioms (20)

一条绳上的蚂蚱
yī tiáo shéng shàng de mà zha
  1. 1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse
  3. 3 people who will sink or swim together
一波未平,一波又起
yī bō wèi píng , yī bō yòu qǐ
  1. 1 before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved
  2. 2 many twists and turns to a story
  3. 3 one thing after another
一病不起
yī bìng bù qǐ
  1. 1 to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
一矢中的
yī shǐ zhòng dì
  1. 1 to hit the target with a single shot
  2. 2 to say something spot on (idiom)
一石二鸟
yī shí èr niǎo
  1. 1 to kill two birds with one stone (idiom)