自食其果
zì shí qí guǒ
Pinyin

Definition

自食其果
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zì shí qí guǒ
  1. to eat one's own fruit (idiom); fig. suffering the consequences of one's own action
  2. to reap what one has sown

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

来自
lái zì
  1. 1 to come from (a place)
  2. 2 From: (in email header)
其
qí
  1. 1 his
  2. 2 her
  3. 3 its
  4. 4 their
  5. 5 that
  6. 6 such
  7. 7 it (refers to sth preceding it)
其实
qí shí
  1. 1 actually
  2. 2 in fact
  3. 3 really
如果
rú guǒ
  1. 1 if
  2. 2 in case
  3. 3 in the event that
结果
jiē guǒ
  1. 1 to bear fruit
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

三旬九食
sān xún jiǔ shí
  1. 1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation
  3. 3 in dire straits
三缄其口
sān jiān qí kǒu
  1. 1 (idiom) reluctant to speak about it
  2. 2 tight-lipped
上下其手
shàng xià qí shǒu
  1. 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
  2. 2 fig. conspiring to defraud
不胜其苦
bù shèng qí kǔ
  1. 1 unable to bear the pain (idiom)
不厌其烦
bù yàn qí fán
  1. 1 not to mind taking all the trouble (idiom)
  2. 2 to take great pains
  3. 3 to be very patient

Sample Sentences

你看你，自食其果！目标巴拉圭，再发射二十枚“记忆抹杀”导弹！我要让你的国民忘记自己的国家和历史，让你世世代代都臣服于我！
nǐ kàn nǐ ，zìshíqíguǒ ！mùbiāo Bālāguī ，zài fāshè èrshí méi “jìyì mǒshā ”dǎodàn ！wǒ yào ràng nǐ de guómín wàngjì zìjǐ de guójiā hé lìshǐ ，ràng nǐ shìshìdàidài dōu chénfú yú wǒ ！
Look at you-- you had it coming! Target: Paraguay. Launch twenty more ``Memory Eraser" missiles. I want to make your people forget their own country and history, and make you obey me for until the end of time!
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