搬起石头砸自己的脚

1. • to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom)
2. • hoisted by one's own petard

Character by character

• 搬(bān)move
• 起(qǐ)rise
• 石(shí)surname Shi
• 头(tou)suffix for nouns
• 砸(zá)smash
• 自(zì)self
• 己(jǐ)self
• 的(de)marks possession and modification
• 脚(jiǎo)foot