own goal
noun [C] UKDefinition
› in sport, a point that a player scores by mistake against their own team: Our team lost when we scored an own goal late in the second half.General terms used in ball sports › something that you do which gives you a disadvantage and helps someone else, even if this is the opposite of what you intendedCausing difficulties for oneself or others
(Definition of own goal noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- ail verb (CAUSE DIFFICULTY)
- be a tall order idiom
- be asking for trouble idiom
- be your own worst enemy idiom
- catch sb out phrasal verb (CAUSE DIFFICULTY)
- come back/home to roost idiom
- fault line noun (PROBLEM)
- head for sth phrasal verb
- land sb in sth phrasal verb
- lay up trouble for yourself idiom
- lay yourself open to attack, criticism, ridicule, etc. idiom
- like pulling teeth idiom
- plunge (sb/sth) into sth phrasal verb
- pose verb (CAUSE)
- shoot yourself in the foot idiom
- sow the seeds of sth idiom
- spell trouble idiom
- store up trouble/problems idiom
- storm cloud noun
- suicide noun (DEFEAT)
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