rod for one's own breech

A form of rod for one's back — The means of one's own punishment or downfall.

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nouna rod for one's own breech
  1. alternativeAlternative form of rod for one's back.

    [He] would have cheated him; but it prov'd he only made a rod for his own breech, and what he intended to him, was fallen upon himself.

    1674, Francis Kirkman, The English Rogue, printed by Anne Johnson (London), p. 224
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