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| Russian | English |
| выкопать себе яму | dig oneself into a hole (a situation when one causes a problem that one will find difficult to escape from: I've dug myself into a hole Bob_cat) |
| вырыть себе яму | cook one's own goose (13.05) |
| рыть яму другому | dig the pit for another ("Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another." – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ART Vancouver) |
| самому вырыть себе яму | make one's own bed (Баян) |
| самому себе рыть яму | ride for a fall |
| самому себе рыть яму | make a rod for one's own back |