Idiom
rod for one's back
Meaning
The means of one's own punishment or downfall.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“By lying to your boss, you make a rod for your own back.”
“If you promise to finish this project by tomorrow, you are making a rod for your own back.”
“By refusing to delegate any responsibilities to his team, the manager inadvertently created a rod for his own back when the workload became impossible to manage alone.”
Examples
simple
“By lying to your boss, you make a rod for your own back.”
contextual
“If you promise to finish this project by tomorrow, you are making a rod for your own back.”
complex
“By refusing to delegate any responsibilities to his team, the manager inadvertently created a rod for his own back when the workload became impossible to manage alone.”
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