自找苦吃
zì zhǎo kǔ chī
Pinyin
Definition
自找苦吃
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- to bring trouble on oneself
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to come from (a place)
- 2 From: (in email header)
- 1 to eat
- 2 to consume
- 3 to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
- 4 to eradicate
- 5 to destroy
- 6 to absorb
- 7 to suffer
- 8 to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [jí])
- 1 to try to find
- 2 to look for
- 3 to call on sb
- 4 to find
- 5 to seek
- 6 to return
- 7 to give change
- 1 to find
- 1 self
- 2 oneself
- 3 from
- 4 since
- 5 naturally
- 6 surely
Idioms (20)
不胜其苦
- 1 unable to bear the pain (idiom)
不敢自专
- 1 not daring to act for oneself (idiom)
不由自主
- 1 can't help; involuntarily (idiom)
不听老人言,吃亏在眼前
- 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
不言自明
- 1 self-evident; needing no explanation (idiom)