sattua omaan nilkkaan

Finnish

Etymology

Literally: to hit one's own ankle

Verb

sattua omaan nilkkaan

  1. (idiomatic) to cut off one's nose to spite one's face (to harm oneself as a result of attempting to harm an adversary)

Conjugation

See sattua; omaan nilkkaan is not inflected.

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