作茧自缚 zuòjiǎnzìfù to be caught in one's own trap Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 作茧自缚 作繭自縛 zuòjiǎnzìfù to be caught in one's own trap (idiom) to spin a cocoon around oneself; to get enmeshed in a situation of one's own making or to be trapped by one's own actions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.540 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.413 per million Cross-References Synonym 吐丝自缚 tǔsīzìfùHas variant 造茧自缚 zàojiǎnzìfù Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
作茧自缚 作繭自縛 zuòjiǎnzìfù to be caught in one's own trap (idiom) to spin a cocoon around oneself; to get enmeshed in a situation of one's own making or to be trapped by one's own actions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.540 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.413 per million Cross-References Synonym 吐丝自缚 tǔsīzìfùHas variant 造茧自缚 zàojiǎnzìfù Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)