cut off your nose to spite your face
Definition
› to cause problems for yourself by trying to punish someone else: If you stay home because your ex-boyfriend is at the party, aren't you cutting off your nose to spite your face?
(Definition of cut off your nose to spite your face from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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