吐ㄊㄨˇtǔ絲ㄙsī自ㄗˋzì縛ㄈㄨˊfú

  1. 蠶吐絲作繭困縛自己。後比喻為自作自受。《景德傳燈錄·卷二九·誌公和尚十四科頌》：「聲聞執法坐禪，如蠶吐絲自縛。」

英to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom)​; enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising, hoist with his own petard