Examples of 'ourselves in the foot' in a sentence
Meaning of "ourselves in the foot"
This phrase is used idiomatically to describe a situation where someone unintentionally sabotages or harms their own interests or prospects. It suggests that the person's actions or decisions have negative consequences or backfire, similar to shooting oneself in the foot, which is a self-inflicted injury
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ourselves in the foot
We are shooting ourselves in the foot by what we are doing now.
It is time we stop shooting ourselves in the foot.
We shot ourselves in the foot a little bit.
We are too busy shooting ourselves in the foot.
We shot ourselves in the foot big time.
This is no time to shoot ourselves in the foot.
Shot ourselves in the foot with that.
We must not shoot ourselves in the foot.
We shot ourselves in the foot way too much last week.
I think we all shot ourselves in the foot.
Not shoot ourselves in the foot from a legal standpoint.
And we keep shooting ourselves in the foot.
We shot ourselves in the foot as the government handed us the gun.
We may have shot ourselves in the foot.
We shot ourselves in the foot and New Zealand capitalised on it.
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We are just shooting ourselves in the foot again.
Withdrawing into our European shell would be akin to shooting ourselves in the foot.
We are shooting ourselves in the foot if we mess this up.
We actually spend money to shoot ourselves in the foot.
We are shooting ourselves in the foot by under-investing.
We just have to avoid shooting ourselves in the foot.
We 'd be shooting ourselves in the foot if we were doing that.
But we are making mistakes and shooting ourselves in the foot.
So we did not shoot ourselves in the foot as much as we thought.
And so a lot of the time we are just shooting ourselves in the foot.
We are going to shoot ourselves in the foot if we come out like that.
We do not want to present a fresh face only to shoot ourselves in the foot.
Let us not shoot ourselves in the foot here.
More often that not, it seems that we manage to shoot ourselves in the foot.
So in a way, we shot ourselves in the foot a number of times.
If we appear fragmented, we will be shooting ourselves in the foot.
We definitely shot ourselves in the foot with this one!
Okay, on the count of three we are gonna shoot ourselves in the foot.
It 's like we are shooting ourselves in the foot and we do not know it.
Shorting the U.N. on peacekeeping funding is therefore akin to shooting ourselves in the foot.
We are shooting ourselves in the foot.
Entitlements . We do not want to present a fresh face only to shoot ourselves in the foot.
Truly shooting ourselves in the foot.
Fellow Christians, we have to stop shooting ourselves in the foot.
Why do we shoot ourselves in the foot when it comes to public health?
We appear to be shooting ourselves in the foot.
We were shooting ourselves in the foot - a lot of our turnovers were our own fault . ”.
Otherwise, we may be shooting ourselves in the foot.
We just shot ourselves in the foot too many times . ”.
It 's time that we stop shooting ourselves in the foot.
But we shot ourselves in the foot too many times . ”.
It 's time to stop shooting ourselves in the foot.
Let us not shoot ourselves in the foot any longer, eh?
In our particular case right now, I am convinced we shot ourselves in the foot through.
Must we constantly shoot ourselves in the foot over things?
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