造茧自缚

to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising / hoist with his own petard

Characters and words in 造茧自缚

to make / to build / to manufacture / to invent / to fabricate / to go to / party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement) / crop / classifier for crops

= + : Mnemonic symbol: an automated robot arm like the ones used to manufacture cars.

= + : In the aortas bathroom, Zorro sets up a robot arm to manufacture gladiator sandals for him. He also programmed the robot arm to set up a LED display to count how many pairs of sandals it produced.
cocoon / callus
variant of 繭|茧[jian3]
(bound form) cocoon / (bound form) callus (variant of 趼[jian3])
self / oneself / from / since / naturally / surely

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a hand mirror, which someone uses to look at themselves.

The Eye of Providence (目) is looking at itself (自) in a handheld mirror (自) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). It think it's indeed looking very good, since Zorro (z) attached a petal (丶) to its eye (目).
to bind / to tie / Taiwan pr. [fu2]

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) is binding (缚) a silk worm (纟) around the black board (尃) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) multiple times.

Words with 造茧自缚

造茧自缚 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 造茧自缚

造茧自缚 currently does not appear in any sentence.