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make a rod for your own back
idiomUK
If you make a rod for your own back, you act in a way that creates more problems for yourself in the future: 自讨苦吃；自找麻烦；惹火烧身
By giving in to the terrorists' demands, the government will simply be making a rod for its own back.政府要是屈从于恐怖分子的要求就只会惹火烧身。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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ask questions of someone/somethingidiom
be a tall orderidiom
be asking for troubleidiom
be your own worst enemyidiom
bother someone with something
catch
dig
make it difficult for someone to do something
obduracy
open a can of worms
overburden
pitchfork someone into something
sand
shoot
subject someone/something to something
sucker punch
swamp
tall
throw sand in the gearsidiom
wrong-foot
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