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Four-character idioms

자업자득

自業自得 · your own deeds, your own result

You brought it on yourself.

When to useConsequences of your own bad choices.

Related proverbbeans-and-red-beans

Examples

  • 밤새 게임하고 지각했으니 자업자득이지.

    You gamed all night and overslept — you brought that on yourself.

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