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惹火烧身

Traditional 惹火燒身

rě huǒ shāo shēn

stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom)

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rě huǒ shāo shēn 惹火燒身

  1. stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt
  2. fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling

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