自作自受
zì zuò zì shòu
Pinyin

Definition

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

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

来自
lái zì
  1. 1 to come from (a place)
  2. 2 From: (in email header)
受
shòu
  1. 1 to receive
  2. 2 to accept
  3. 3 to suffer
  4. 4 subjected to
  5. 5 to bear
  6. 6 to stand
  7. 7 pleasant
  8. 8 (passive marker)
工作
gōng zuò
  1. 1 to work
  2. 2 (of a machine) to operate
  3. 3 job
  4. 4 work
  5. 5 task
  6. 6 classifier: 个 gè
  7. 7 classifier: 份 fèn
  8. 8 classifier: 项 xiàng
自
zì
  1. 1 self
  2. 2 oneself
  3. 3 from
  4. 4 since
  5. 5 naturally
  6. 6 surely
自己
zì jǐ
  1. 1 oneself
  2. 2 one's own

Idioms (20)

不敢自专
bù gǎn zì zhuān
  1. 1 not daring to act for oneself (idiom)
不由自主
bù yóu zì zhǔ
  1. 1 can't help; involuntarily (idiom)
不言自明
bù yán zì míng
  1. 1 self-evident; needing no explanation (idiom)
不说自明
bù shuō zì míng
  1. 1 self-explanatory
  2. 2 self-evident (idiom)
以身作则
yǐ shēn zuò zé
  1. 1 to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model

Sample Sentences

天哪！我可真是自作自受啊！
tiānna ！wǒ kě zhēnshì zìzuòzìshòu ā ！
Good lord! I really am getting what I signed up for!
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真是，不作死就不会死，干嘛要装清纯呢，自作自受了吧。
zhēn shì ，bù zuòsǐ jiù bù huì sǐ ，gànmá yào zhuāng qīngchún ne ，zìzuòzìshòu le ba 。
That's awful. If you hadn't set yourself up, you would have been fine. Why did you pretend to be all naive? You should stew in your own juice.
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