搬 起 石 头 砸 自 己 的 脚

bān qǐ shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎodictionary entry

to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom) / hoisted by one's own petard

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Original source entry:

搬起石頭砸自己的腳 搬起石头砸自己的脚 [ban1 qi3 shi2 tou5 za2 zi4 ji3 de5 jiao3] /to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom)/hoisted by one's own petard/

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搬
bān
to move (i.e. relocate oneself) / to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky) / to shift / to copy indiscriminately
起
qǐ
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group
石
dàn
dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗[dǒu] / one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shí]
shí
rock / stone / stone inscription / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[bā yīn]
Shí
surname Shi / abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shí jiā zhuāng], the capital of Hebei
头
tóu
head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:個|个[gè]
tou
suffix for nouns
砸
zá
to smash / to pound / to fail / to muck up / to bungle
自
zì
(bound form) self / oneself / from / since / naturally / as a matter of course
己
jǐ
self / oneself / sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shí tiān gān] / sixth in order / letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / hexa
的
de
of / ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pí gé de] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的[pǎo táng r de] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xīn de] "new one") / also pr. [dì] or [di] in poetry and songs
dī
(bound form) a taxi / a cab (abbr. for 的士[dī shì])
dí
really and truly
dì
(bound form) bull's-eye / target
脚
jiǎo
foot / leg (of an animal or an object) / base (of an object) / CL:雙|双[shuāng],隻|只[zhī] / classifier for kicks
jué
role (variant of 角[jué])

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