How to pronounce “shoot oneself in the foot”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (idiomatic) To act against one's own interests; to unintentionally behave self-destructively.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

pride oneself, assert oneself, lend oneself, lower oneself, stenciling, sequence alignment, ctenophora, samonella, somnolent, somnolence