to foul one's (own) nest
1foul one's own nest — If you act in a way that harms your own interests, your position or your reputation, you foul your own nest. He fouled his own nest by wrongly accusing his boss …
2foul one's own nest — make a mess of one s life …
3foul one's nest — foul one s (own) nest do something damaging or harmful to oneself or one s own interests …
4foul — /faʊl / (say fowl) adjective 1. grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell. 2. charged with or characterised by offensive or noisome matter: foul air. 3. filthy or dirty, as places, vessels, or clothes. 4.… …
5shit on one's own doorstep — vb British to do something damaging or unpardon able which will rebound upon oneself or one s friends; to ruin one s own environ ment. This expression, like the politer foul the nest , has equivalents in most European languages (normally… …
6foul — foully, adv. /fowl/, adj., fouler, foulest, adv., n., v. adj. 1. grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell. 2. containing or characterized by offensive or noisome matter: foul air; foul stagnant water. 3.… …
7Bird nest — For animal nests in general, see Nest. For other uses, see Bird s nest. Deep cup nest of the Great Reed warbler A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young. Although the term popularly refers to a… …
8disrepute — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Want of good reputation Nouns 1. disrepute, disreputableness, discredit, ill repute, bad name, bad odor, ill favor; disapprobation; ingloriousness, derogation, debasement; degradation, obloquy, ignominy; …
9soil — soil, dirty, sully, tarnish, foul, befoul, smirch, besmirch, grime, begrime can all mean to make or become unclean. Soil basically implies fundamental defilement or pollution (as of the mind or spirit) {why war soils and disarranges whatever it… …
10literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
