mire of one's own making
- idiom
:
pantano de su propia creación
- After several poor choices, she found herself in a mire of her own making that was difficult to escape.
Examples
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He was left to sort out the mire of his own making after ignoring everyone’s advice.
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It is easy to blame others, but sometimes we are stuck in a mire of our own making.
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He found himself in a mire of his own making!
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She created a mire of her own making by ignoring the warnings.
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After several poor choices, she found herself in a mire of her own making that was difficult to escape.
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He was left to sort out the mire of his own making after ignoring everyone’s advice.
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It is easy to blame others, but sometimes we are stuck in a mire of our own making.
Synonyms
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A situation that keeps a person trapped by their own choices
Antonyms
How Serious
Surface Forms
Morphology
mire + of + one + own + making
The overall meaning ('a troublesome situation someone has caused themselves') is directly derivable from 'mire' (a predicament) combined with the genitive phrase 'of one's own making' (caused by oneself). This is a fully compositional possessive/nominalization pattern common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Mire of one's own making paints a picture of someone stuck in deep mud—mire—that they made themselves ('own making'), and because they caused it, they must deal with it. That's why the phrase means 'a difficult situation you brought on yourself'.