惹火烧身

rě huǒ shāo shēn

Definitions

1. stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt
2. fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling

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Child Words of 惹火烧身

to provoke

fire

to burn

to stir up the fire

to set fire to

body