DIG YOUR OWN GRAVE

Meaning of DIG YOUR OWN GRAVE in English

cause your own failure, cut your own throat

When you criticize the manager, are you digging your own grave?

Wayne Magnuson. English idioms vocabulary. Словарь английских идиом. 2012

DIG YOUR OWN GRAVE — dig your own grave | dig a ˈgrave for yourself to do sth that will have very harmful results for …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DIG YOUR OWN GRAVE — cause your own failure, cut your own throat When you criticize the manager, are you digging your own grave?
English Idioms vocab
YOUR
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
OWN
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GRAVE — adj I. heavy; II. grave (1. solemn, important; 2. low-pitched, deep); accento grave [Gram.] grave accent
Interlingua English vocab
YOUR — I. Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ēower (used as gen. of gē you); akin to Old High German iuwēr …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
OWN — I. ˈōn adjective Etymology: Middle English owen, from Old English āgen; akin to Old High German eigan own, Old Norse …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GRAVE — I. grave ˈgrāv verb ( graved -vd ; grav·en -vən ; or graved ; graving ; graves ) Etymology: Middle …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DIG — I. ˈdig verb ( dug ˈdəg ; or archaic digged ˈdigd ; dug or archaic digged ; digging ; digs …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GRAVE
Английский словарь Webster
GRAVE
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
YOUR — /yoor, yawr, yohr/ ; unstressed /yeuhr/ , pron. 1. (a form of the possessive case of you used as an …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
OWN — /ohn/ , adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAVE
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DIG — dig 1 /dig/ , v. , dug or ( Archaic ) digged, digging , n. v.i. 1. to break up, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
OWN — I. ˈōn adjective Etymology: Middle English owen, from Old English āgen; akin to Old High German eigan own, Old Norse …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GRAVE — I. grave ˈgrāv transitive verb ( graved ; grav·en ˈgrā-vən ; or graved ; grav·ing ) Etymology: Middle English, from …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DIG — I. ˈdig verb ( dug ˈdəg ; dig·ging ) Etymology: Middle English diggen Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. a. …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
YOUR — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ēower; akin to Old English ēow you — more at you Date: before …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
OWN — adj to hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; …
Webster English vocab
GRAVE
Webster English vocab
DIG — add. ·noun gouge. 2. dig ·add. ·noun an act of digging. 3. dig ·add. ·noun a tool for digging. 4. …
Webster English vocab
OWN — [own] adj [ME owen, fr. OE agen; akin to OHG eigan own, ON eiginn, OE agan to possess--more at owe] …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GRAVE — [grave] vt graved ; grav.en or graved ; grav.ing [ME, fr. OE grafan; akin to OHG graban to dig, OCS …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GRAVE — I grave noun 'burial place'; adjective 'serious'; verb BrE AmE ɡreɪv ▷ graved ɡreɪvd ▷ graver ˈɡreɪv ə AmE - …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
GRAVE — I . *grave / greɪv; NAmE / noun , adjective —see also grave (II) ■ noun 1. a place in …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
YOUR — / jɔː(r); NAmE jʊr weak form jə(r)/ determiner (the possessive form of you ) 1. of or belonging to the …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
OWN — / əʊn; NAmE oʊn/ adjective , pronoun , verb ■ adjective , pronoun 1. used to emphasize that sth belongs …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DIG — / dɪg; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( dig·ging , dug , dug / dʌg; NAmE /) 1. …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
YOUR — your S1 W1 /jə; strong jɔː $ jər strong jɔːr/ BrE AmE determiner [possessive form of ‘you’] [ Language: Old …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
OWN — I. own 1 S1 W1 /əʊn $ oʊn/ BrE AmE adjective , pronoun [always after a possessive] 1 . used …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GRAVE — I. grave 1 /ɡreɪv/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: græf ] 1 . the place …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DIG — I. dig 1 S2 /dɪɡ/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense and past participle dug /dʌɡ/, present participle digging ) …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
OWN — adj. & v. --adj. (prec. by possessive) 1 a belonging to oneself or itself; not another's (saw it with my …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
GRAVE — adj. & n. --adj. 1 a serious, weighty, important (a grave matter). b dignified, solemn, sombre (a grave look). 2 …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
GRAVE — n. 1 a a trench dug in the ground to receive a coffin on burial. b a mound or memorial …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
OWN — adj. & v. adj. (prec. by possessive) 1 a belonging to oneself or itself; not another's (saw it with my …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
GRAVE — adj. & n. adj. 1 a serious, weighty, important (a grave matter). b dignified, solemn, sombre (a grave look). 2 …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
GRAVE — n. 1 a a trench dug in the ground to receive a coffin on burial. b a mound or memorial …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
DIG — v. & n. v. (digging; past and past part. dug) 1 intr. break up and remove or turn over soil, …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
OWN — adj. & v. --adj. (prec. by possessive) 1. a belonging to oneself or itself; not another's (saw it with my …
Oxford English vocab
GRAVE — 1. n.1 a a trench dug in the ground to receive a coffin on burial. b a mound or memorial …
Oxford English vocab
DIG — v. & n. --v. (digging; past and past part. dug) 1. intr. break up and remove or turn over soil, …
Oxford English vocab
YOUR — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: 'Your' is the second person possessive …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
OWN — ( owns, owning, owned) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You use …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GRAVE — Pronounced /greɪv/ except for meaning 5, when it is pronounced /grɑ:v/. ( graver, gravest) Frequency: The word is one of …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DIG — ( digs, digging, dug) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If people …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GRAVE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a grave error (= extremely serious, with serious results ) ▪ He has committed …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DIG — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES dig a ditch ▪ Ditches were dug to prevent the river from flooding. dig …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
YOUR — [determiner]Your means of or belonging to people generally.Garlic is good for your blood.Of course you want the best for your …
Cambridge English vocab
DIG — (MOVE EARTH) [verb] digging, past dug - to move and break up (earth) using a tool, a machine or your …
Cambridge English vocab
GRAVE — Synonyms and related words : abject, abominable, acute, afflictive, agonizing, annihilation, arch, aristocratic, arrant, assemble, atrocious, august, autolithograph, awe-inspiring, awful, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
OWN — See: COME INTO ONE'S OWN, DOSE OF ONE'S OWN MEDICINE, HOLD ONE'S OWN, IN A WORLD OF ONE'S OWN, KEEP …
Slang English vocab
GRAVE — See: ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE, TURN IN ONE'S GRAVE or TURN OVER IN ONE'S GRAVE.
Slang English vocab
DIG — n. Function: verb 1 to loosen and turn over or remove (as soil) with or as if with a spade …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
DIG — I. verb 1. to loosen and turn over or remove (as soil) with or as if with a spade dig …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
DIG — I. noun 1 ( esp. BrE ) small push ADJECTIVE ▪ sharp VERB + DIG ▪ give ▪ She gave …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
OWN — INDEX: 1. to own something 2. when someone owns something 3. the person who owns something 4. the things that …
Longman Activator English vocab
OWN — See ↑ HAVE/NOT HAVE 1, ↑ OWN 1 ◆◆◆ • ↑ alone/on your own/by yourself • ↑ be your own …
Longman Activator English vocab
DIG — INDEX: 1. to dig earth out of the ground 2. to remove something from the ground by digging RELATED WORDS …
Longman Activator English vocab
OWN — adj. 25B6; adjective he has his own reasons : PERSONAL, individual, particular, private, personalized, unique. 25B6; verb I own this …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
DIG — n. 25B6; verb she began to dig the heavy clay soil : TURN OVER, work, break up; till, harrow, plough. …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
DIG — v. 1 excavate, burrow, gouge, scoop, hollow out; tunnel He dug a hole in which to set the post 2 …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
OWN — See: COME INTO ONE'S OWN, DOSE OF ONE'S OWN MEDICINE, HOLD ONE'S OWN, IN A WORLD OF ONE'S OWN, KEEP …
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