吐丝自缚
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- to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
- hoist with his own petard
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Data from JMdict, KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), KanjiVG, CC-CEDICT and Make Me a Hanzi. Sources and licences