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                作茧自缚
                [zuò jiăn zì fù]
                
                                        Binding Oneself Like a Cocoon comes from the metaphor of silkworm spinning silk to bind itself into ...
                
             
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                作茧
                [zuò jiăn]
                
                                        Cocooning oneself 作茧 implies creating ones own restrictions It is derived from a Chinese idiom ...
                
             
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                绕成茧
                [răo chéng jiăn]
                
                                        It means spun into a cocoon metaphorically indicating someone who has become isolated or trapped ...
                
             
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                庸人作茧自搏
                [yōng rén zuò jiăn zì bó]
                
                                        Ordinary People Bind Themselves Up Like Silkworms Making Cocoons and Struggle Within Derived from ...
                
             
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                作茧自缚画地为牢
                [zuò jiăn zì fù huà dì wéi láo]
                
                                        Meaning selfimprisoned like the silkworm cocoons itself this implies someone recognizing that ...
                
             
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                作茧自搏
                [zuò jiăn zì bó]
                
                                        Make trouble for oneself as a silkworm produces the cocoon in which it is enclosedThe phrase 自作茧缚 ...
                
             
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                作茧自傅
                [zuò jiăn zì fù]
                
                                        Literally it means binding oneself in a cocoon It refers to selfimposed restrictions This netizen ...
                
             
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                作繭自縛
                [zuò jiăn zì fú]
                
                                        A phrase from Chinese saying binding oneself in a cocoon it means being in selfimposed confinement ...
                
             
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                做茧自缚
                [zuò jiăn zì fù]
                
                                        Wrapping Oneself in Silk Cocoons Like a Pupa draws from the idiom describing actions leading to selfrestriction ...