Rarely did one shoot oneself in the foot with the weapon.

My own personal experience is that one must not shoot oneself in the foot by spending money early on that you might need later.

SELLING a book called "How to Cook Without a Book" (Broadway, $25) seems like the publishing equivalent of shooting oneself in the foot.

As to "shoot oneself in the foot" means "to accidentally act against one's own interests", and getting out of the front line in WWI was most distinctly NOT acting against one's own interests, I think Mr William's use of the term stands.

All these reasons, therefore, explain why the wording of items 6 and 7 in this declaration on agriculture is known in politics as 'shooting oneself in the foot': this weakens the European Union, this European Union that has until now been the most powerful force promoting the interests of the poorest countries.

"It seems to me that you've dug your own grave, son.

"Hell, ignore those and you might as well dig your own grave, eh?

"Dig Your Own Grave" then became available in record stores a week later.

And if you let somebody take that dime from you, you might as well dig your own grave.

"You tried to dig your own grave?"

"You may be digging your own grave, pal."

"You go strolling around town demanding to see four-year-old reports, and you're digging your own grave.

Knowing the dangerous mistakes of the buying process might mean the difference between building financial security and digging your own grave of debt.

"But take a care that you do not dig your own grave with that spade between your legs."

Keep digging your own grave, Digger.

You're digging your own graves.

"Keep it up, Lunsford, you'll dig your own grave," the Captain said and walked out of the room.

"I don't know, it's a tie--like digging your own grave in a way."

Extreme obsession with secrecy at your home and not associating with others are, on the contrary, just digging your own grave.

'You have dug your own grave!'

How to Dig Your Own Grave in Less than Five Minutes?

"I don't think you've lived until you've had to dig your own grave and then live in there," said Sergeant Padilla of the Bronx.

"Digging Your Own Grave in Six Easy Steps"

"Dig Your Own Grave" (24 April 2006)

Other songs like "The Falling" and "Dig Your Own Grave" explore the repercussions of living life for oneself.

The men hesitated; then the one called Aidan said tersely, "Keep digging, English, and ye'll be digging your own grave."

On 26 April 2006 the band released Dig Your Own Grave, an EP meant as a farewell from the band.

For the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu, back in 2560 BC, the notion of digging your own grave transposed elaborately into constructing the Great Pyramid.

Dig Your Own Grave was a CD/DVD EP released on 23 April 2006 by Test Icicles.