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Idiom: Shoot yourself in the foot
If you shoot yourself in the foot, you make things unnecessarily difficult for yourself by saying or doing something you shouldn’t.
Politicians do this all the time.
The current president of the United States shoots himself in the foot daily.
If you read his Twitter account, you will see what I mean.
Japanese politicians are also professional foot shooters.
They do it so often that it is surprising any of them can still walk.
Perhaps that’s one of the reasons gun laws are so strict here.
They are their own worst enemies when it comes to making gaffes.
Japanese politicians have said that women are baby machines (BANG), stated that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima could not be helped (BANG) or that older adults are a drain on the health care system and they should hurry up and die (BANG, BANG, BANG).
We should all be careful and think about what we are doing so that we do not cause unnecessary trouble for ourselves or, in other words, shoot ourselves in the foot.
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