- stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt
- fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling
Characters
- 惹 (惹): to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems)
- 火 (火): surname Huo
- 烧 (燒): to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head
- 身 (身): body; life; oneself; personally; one's morality and conduct; the main part of a structure or body; pregnant; classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset; Kangxi radical 158
Resources
- Wiktionary: 惹火烧身
- MDBG: 惹火烧身
- Examples with 惹火烧身 on Tatoeba
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