作茧自缚作繭自縛

zuò jiǎn zì fù

Meaning

to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist by his own petard

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作zuòto make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform亻乍茧jiǎncocoon; callus, blister艹虫自zìself; private, personal; from目缚fùto tie, to bind纟尃