单词 | to cut off your nose to spite your face |
释义 | to cut off your nose to spite your face phrase See full dictionary entry for nose If you say that someone is cutting off their nose to spite their face, you mean they do something that they think will hurt someone, without realizing or caring that it will hurt themselves as well. [disapproval] The industry's greed means it is cutting off its nose to spite its face. |
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