📚 verb • entry_id 59109
foul one's own nest
Meanings (ES + gloss)
tirar piedras contra el propio tejado
To hurt one's own interests, especially to damage the reputation of one's self, family or group.
He had concluded, 'Arbitrary violence against them now would be to foul your own nest; mar at the outset the future that is your destiny.
In giving vent to these baseless slanders you have now fouled your own nest and sought to discredit the very judgment which you and your two distinguished colleagues have just rend…
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