"Foul one's own nest" nghĩa là gì?

Ready to fledge. Photo courtesy coniferconifer.

'Foul one's own nest' nghĩa là tự làm hại mình, gậy ông đập lưng ông (to harm one's own interests; to bring disadvantage upon oneself). It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest = chẳng hay gì vạch áo cho người xem lưng.

Ví dụ
He tried to discredit a fellow senator with the president, but just succeeded in fouling his own nest.

But Don, despite being a first-class dirty bird, usually knows not to foul his own nest. That’s what makes his affair with the neighbor so perplexing.

We should thank our former foreign minister for bringing something hideous (gớm guốc, ghê tởm) and shameful (đáng hổ thẹn, ô danh) to light -- that Nazi ideas were fully adopted by white-collar workers in the Foreign Ministry. Joschka Fischer stood up to criticism that he would foul his own nest, and with his order to start the historical commission he made it clear that the ministry's pride in itself (as a haven of resistance to Hitler) was no longer acceptable.

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