shoot oneself in the foot 搬起石头砸自己的脚

“搬起石头砸自己的脚”，中文俗语，字面意思是“lift a rock only to drop it on one's own feet”，比喻本来想害别人，结果害了自己（hurt oneself by one's own doing，be hoist with [by] one's own petard），与英文俗语“shoot oneself in the foot”意思相近。

例句：

一名法国外交官说：“他们是在搬起石头砸自己的脚。”

"They are shooting themselves in the foot, " said one French diplomat.

实行这种政策，只能是搬起石头砸自己的脚。

Following such a policy can only result in sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind.

她未曾想到这计谋反倒使她搬起石头砸自己的脚。

The scheme rebounded on her in a way she had not expected.