造茧自缚
Traditional form:
造繭自縛
Pinyin (reading):
zàojiǎnzìfù
Definitions:
- to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
- hoist with his own petard
Characters:
- 造 - to build, to construct, to invent, to manufacture
- 茧 - cocoon; callus, blister
- 自 - self; private, personal; from
- 缚 - to tie, to bind
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