Sentence examples for shooting oneself from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, I believe the pledge campaign is a way of shooting oneself in the foot.

Most notably, Hungary's Viktor Orbán called it "shooting oneself in the foot".

It was history's most spectacular example of shooting oneself in the foot.

Allowing universities to charge maximum fees, then encouraging others to undercut them, is a spectacular example of shooting oneself in the polished, academic foot.

It gives the impression that to expose ourselves by having an informative or opinion-related blog... would be like shooting oneself in the head.

SELLING a book called "How to Cook Without a Book" (Broadway, $25) seems like the publishing equivalent of shooting oneself in the foot.

It also entails more than learning the rules and customs of those countries, so as not to shoot oneself in the foot when opening an office overseas.

It is impossible to tear oneself away.

Schrader re-hires her, which just goes to prove LiS's longstanding belief that, when in doubt, ask oneself: "What would Lindsay Lohan do?" Later, when Lohan is panicking about shooting a nude scene, Schrader's response is to get naked himself so as to make her feel, I don't know, safer with a naked 66-year-old man nearby?

Shooting WP.

Shooting NP.