Sentence examples for to shoot yourself from inspiring English sources

BUT it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot, quite another to shoot yourself in the bread basket.

And the fact that nobody notices you are doing this makes you want to shoot yourself!

"If you read the polls, you want to shoot yourself," the mayor said yesterday.

Against that backdrop, it's best not to shoot yourself in the foot.

A majority of investor mistakes can be summed up by the phrase "try not to shoot yourself in the foot".

"So undercutting these programs is tantamount to shooting yourself in the foot".

Lying on the beach, Anna Duron, 35, a tourist from France, compared banning alcohol in Indonesia to "shooting yourself in the foot".

For the U.S. to default now, when investors are happily lending it money at exceedingly reasonable rates, would be akin to shooting yourself in the head for failing to follow your diet.

(Sir George Sitwell's greeting for visitors) D. For the U.S. to default now, when investors are happily lending it money at exceedingly reasonable rates, would be akin to shooting yourself in the head for failing to follow your diet.

"If you read the tabloids every day you want to go and shoot yourself -- you think that everybody's a serial ax murderer," Mayor Bloomberg said.