saw off the branch one is sitting on

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To pursue a course of action that will lead to self-destruction.
    — A critic's role, he wrote, is that of “sawing off the branch on which one is sitting”: One can and may continue to sit on a branch while sawing it. There is no physical or moral obstacle if one is willing to risk the consequences.

词形变化

saws off the branch one is sitting on present,singular,third-person sawing off the branch one is sitting on participle,present sawed off the branch one was sitting on past sawed off the branch one was sitting on participle,past sawn off the branch one was sitting on participle,past
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