cut off one's nose to spite one's face

动词 v.
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英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To harm oneself as a result of attempting to harm an adversary. idiomatic
    — The public disgrace of his arrival - which I sometimes wonder he could manage to survive - rankled in his bones; he was in that humour when a man - in the words of the old adage - will cut off his nose to spite his face; and he must make himself a public spectacle in the hopes that some of the disgrace might spatter on my lord.

词形变化

cuts off one's nose to spite one's face present,singular,third-person cutting off one's nose to spite one's face participle,present cut off one's nose to spite one's face participle,past cut off one's nose to spite one's face past bite off one's nose to spite one's face alternative cut off one's face to spite one's nose alternative
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