自取灭亡

zìqǔmièwáng

court (or invite) destruction; take the road to one's doom; suicide

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court destruction

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court destruction

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zi4 qu3 mie4 wang2

to court disaster (idiom), to dig one's own grave

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自取(招)灭亡

zì qǔ miè wáng

bring about (invite) one's own destruction (extinction); bring destruction on oneself; court one's own ruin (disaster; doom); cut one's own throat; draw ruin upon oneself; fry (stew) in one's own grease; make nooses for one's own neck; pull down one's house about one's ears; put nooses round one's own neck; put one's head in a nooserun towards disaster; seek one's own downfall (doom); tate the road to one's doom; work one's own undoing

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自取滅亡|自取灭亡 [zì qǔ miè wáng] ► to court disaster (idiom) ► to dig one's own grave