“搬起石头砸自己的脚”，中文俗话，字面意思是“lift a rock only to drop it on one's own feet”，比方本来想害他人，成果害了自己（hurt oneself by one's own doing，be hoist with [by] one's own petard），与英语俗话“shoot oneself in the foot”意思附近。
例句：
一名法国外交官说：“他们是在搬起石头砸自己的脚。”
"They are shooting themselves in the foot, " said one French diplomat.
实施这种方针，只能是搬起石头砸自己的脚。
Following such a policy can only result in sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind.
她未曾想到这策略反倒使她搬起石头砸自己的脚。
The scheme rebounded on her in a way she had not expected.
