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单词 make a rod for your own back
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make a rod for your own back

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If you make a rod for your own back, you act in a way that creates more problems for yourself in the future:

By giving in to the terrorists' demands, the government will simply be making a rod for its own back.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Causing difficulties for oneself or others

  • be a tall order idiom
  • be asking for trouble idiom
  • be your own worst enemy idiom
  • bugger
  • bugger sb about
  • dig
  • lay
  • lay yourself open to attack, criticism, ridicule, etc. idiom
  • like pulling teeth idiom
  • make heavy weather of sth idiom
  • overburden
  • pitchfork sb into sth
  • pose
  • shoot
  • store
  • store sth up
  • store up trouble/problems idiom
  • subject sb/sth to sth
  • suicidal
  • wrong-foot

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