it's someone's funeral

phrase

A person’s decisions or actions will result in negative consequences only for themselves.

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Meanings

phrase

alternative rare that's someone's funeral

  1. idiomaticinformalironicsarcasticsometimesA person’s decisions or actions will result in negative consequences only for themselves.

    He can make as many empty tubes and corrugations out of me as he likes. It's his funeral.

    1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC
    2 more examples

    And then having the nerve to pray to God. It's her pimp, if she wants to do it it's her funeral.

    1936, Caroline Slade, Sterile Sun

    "Well, it's your funeral," Charlie said. "If you like it, I should worry." "Who says I like it?" the other lad said, angrily. "What else can I do?"

    1946, Winston Clewes, Sweet River in the Morning

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 自食其果, 自作自受
  • 自食其果 (zìshíqíguǒ)someone's decisions or actions will bring undesirable consequences only on that person
  • 自作自受 (zìzuòzìshòu)someone's decisions or actions will bring undesirable consequences only on that person
Dutch het is jouw begrafenis
  • het is jouw begrafenissomeone's decisions or actions will bring undesirable consequences only on that person
Finnish itsepähän siitä kärsii, omapa on häpeäsi
  • itsepähän siitä kärsiisomeone's decisions or actions will bring undesirable consequences only on that person
  • omapa on häpeäsisomeone's decisions or actions will bring undesirable consequences only on that person
Hungarian nem tartozik rám, nem az én bajom
  • nem tartozik rámsomeone's decisions or actions will bring undesirable consequences only on that person
  • nem az én bajomsomeone's decisions or actions will bring undesirable consequences only on that person
  • lelke rajtasomeone's decisions or actions will bring undesirable consequences only on that person
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Chicago

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