PROBLEMto do something that will cause serious problems for you in the future 自掘坟墓,自取灭亡,自讨苦吃
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dig your own grave• By continuing to make racistcomments before the committee, he really dug his own grave.• I felt the sinkingwhir of the back wheel as it dug its own grave.• If he went against this young man sitting opposite him, he would in effectdig his own grave.• I thought that before they shot you, they made you dig your own grave first.