搬砖砸脚 — Chinese idiom

Meaning

• to hurt oneself by one's own doing
• to boomerang
• to shoot oneself in the foot

Character by character

• 搬bānto move, to remove, to shift, to transfer
• 砖zhuāntile, brick
• 砸záto smash, to pound, to crush, to break
• 脚jiǎoleg, foot; foundation, base

Idioms sharing a character

• 搬唇递舌 bān chún dì shé
• 搬弄是非 bān nòng shì fēi
• 引玉之砖 yǐn yù zhī zhuān
• 抛砖引玉 pāo zhuān yǐn yù
• 添砖加瓦 tiān zhuān jiā wǎ
• 砸锅卖铁 zá guō mài tiě
• 七手八脚 qī shǒu bā jiǎo
• 四脚朝天 sì jiǎo cháo tiān
• 大手大脚 dà shǒu dà jiǎo
• 手忙脚乱 shǒu máng jiǎo luàn

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.