dig yourself into a hole
informalalso dig a hole for yourself to get yourself into a difficult situation:
The party has really dug itself into a hole with its economic policies.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing difficulties for oneself or others
- be a tall order idiom
- be asking for trouble idiom
- be your own worst enemy idiom
- bugger
- bugger sb about
- dig
- lay
- like pulling teeth idiom
- make a rod for your own back idiom
- make heavy weather of sth idiom
- overburden
- pitchfork sb into sth
- pose
- shoot
- store
- store sth up
- store up trouble/problems idiom
- subject sb/sth to sth
- suicidal
- wrong-foot
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