sign your own death warrant
informalto do something that is harmful to your own position:
She signed her own death warrant by refusing to do what the boss demanded.
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Making mistakes
- balls
- balls (sth) up
- blunder
- bodge
- botch
- drop
- famous
- famous last words idiom
- goof
- making
- misdirect
- put
- slip up
- speak/talk out of turn idiom
- to err is human (to forgive divine). idiom
- trip
- trip (sb) up
- turn
- unforced
- wrong
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