自取灭亡

自取[招]灭亡 [zì qǔ miè wáng]

1. ■ bring about [invite] one's own destruction [extinction]; bring destruction on oneself; court one's own ruin [disaster; doom]; cut one's own throat; draw ruin upon oneself; fry [stew] in one's own grease; make nooses for one's own neck; pull down one's house about one's ears; put nooses round one's own neck; put one's head in a nooserun towards disaster; seek one's own downfall [doom]; tate the road to one's doom; work one's own undoing