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Meaning of 惹火烧身

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huǒ shāo shēn (Trad.: 惹火燒身)
stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt; fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling
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Antonyms: 明哲保身
Example Sentences
1
Don't burn your fingers by getting too involved.
2
The new government had laid its head on the block when it made this new law to control the country's money.
3
"I believe some countries now are playing with fire. And I hope the U. S. won't be burned by this fire, " Cui said, as quoted by The Wall Street Journal.
4
It would be easy, but wrong, to dismiss Zhura as an unrepresentative crackpot whose defence of Stalin says little about contemporary Russian opinion.
5
Washington is obsessed with Afghanistan, and though the Americans have a major base in Kyrgyzstan at Manas, they seem disinclined to do very much.