sattua omaan nilkkaan
Finnish
Etymology
Literally: to hit one's own ankle
Verb
- (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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