惹火烧身

stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt / fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling

to provoke / to irritate / to vex / to stir up / to anger / to attract (troubles) / to cause (problems)

to stir up the fire / fig. to provoke and offend people / to ruffle feathers

fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

to set fire to / to burn down / burning hot / baked cake

to burn / to cook / to stew / to bake / to roast / to heat / to boil (tea, water etc) / fever / to run a temperature / (coll.) to let things go to one's head

body / life / oneself / personally / one's morality and conduct / the main part of a structure or body / pregnant / classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset / Kangxi radical 158