If you spend all your savings now, you are eating your seed corn.
eat one's seed corn
idiomTo consume what is meant for investment instead.
The company sold its essential research equipment to pay for bonuses, effectively eating its seed corn for short-term gain.
By liquidating the firm's long-term assets to cover immediate operating losses, the board was essentially eating its seed corn, leaving the business with no future capacity for growth.
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abound in one's own sense
To follow one’s own inclinations and opinions.
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ace up one's sleeve
A surprise advantage of which others are not aware.
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acknowledge the corn
To admit to the truth of the point at issue or to a mistake; to cop a plea; or perhaps to admit to a small error but not a larger one.
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act one's age
To behave in a manner appropriate to one's age.
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act one's age, not one's shoe size
Synonym of act one's age (“to behave in a mature manner; to avoid being childish”).
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afraid of one's own shadow
Exceptionally timid.
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air one's dirty laundry in public
To reveal one's sordid secrets to the public.
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air one's dirty linen in public
Synonym of air one's dirty laundry in public.