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惹火烧身
rě huǒ shāo shēn
What 惹火烧身 means
- 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
The characters in 惹火烧身
- 惹rěto provoke; to irritate; to vex
- 火huǒfire; urgent; ammunition
- 烧shāoto burn; to set on fire; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc); to braise
- 身shēnbody; life; oneself
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