Apr 22, 2008 10:52
16 yrs ago
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Chinese term
China
Vast, Fast & Trust
Native in: Chinese (Variants: Mandarin, Simplified) 
Works in: English to Chinese, Japanese to Chinese, Japanese to English, and 3 more.
搬起石头砸自己的脚
Chinese to English
Art/Literary
Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
搬起石头砸自己的脚 It means picking up a stone to throw it on other's feet,however,it droped on own's feet. means want to harm other person,but harm himself instead
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +5 | Lift the stone only to drop it on his own feet |
AZ-Loc
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| 4 +5 | shoot oneself in the foot |
QUOI
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Proposed translations
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Lift the stone only to drop it on his own feet
“搬起石头砸自己的脚”的直译和意译。_雅虎知识堂“搬起石头砸自己的脚”的直译和意译。 1; 下一篇文章. 1.直译lift a rock only to drop it on one's own feet 2.意译hoist with one's own petard(意为“made to suffer ...
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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-04-22 12:53:51 GMT)
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an attack boomeranged on oneself ---- suggested by Wenjer Leuschel.
looking for trouble / trouble seeker ---- suggested by Jacques de Meulenaer.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-04-22 13:17:53 GMT)
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backfire ---- suggested by logique
Hoisted by one's petard ---- suggested by Wing-Sze-Ho.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-04-22 12:53:51 GMT)
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an attack boomeranged on oneself ---- suggested by Wenjer Leuschel.
looking for trouble / trouble seeker ---- suggested by Jacques de Meulenaer.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-04-22 13:17:53 GMT)
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backfire ---- suggested by logique
Hoisted by one's petard ---- suggested by Wing-Sze-Ho.
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Comment: "Thx"
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2 hrs
shoot oneself in the foot
(idiom) To act against one's own interest.
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
Wing-Sze Ho
: i think this looses the nuance where the intention was to harm someone else, but having it backfire.
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| agree |
xiaoyanchen
: I think this is the right equivalent idiom. http://www.freexinwen.com/chinese/eng/wi/lesson337.asp
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| agree |
chica nueva
: http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:s5uXiIrUyXoJ:www.hjbbs.... 搬起石头砸自己的脚 foot&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=nz to unintentionally do something which spoils a situation for yourself (Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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| agree |
pastoral taylor
: agree
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| agree |
AZ-Loc
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| agree |
Malcolm Mayfield
1 day 17 hrs
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