to smoke your own dope
- idiom
- Slang
:
creerse su propia propaganda
- She warned him not to smoke his own dope if he wanted the project to succeed.
Examples
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In the tech industry, leaders sometimes smoke their own dope and ignore critical feedback.
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He always smokes his own dope when he talks about his achievements.
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If you start to smoke your own dope, you may lose sight of reality and make poor decisions.
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Don't smoke your own dope by thinking you're the best!
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If you start to smoke your own dope, you may lose sight of reality and make poor decisions.
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In the tech industry, leaders sometimes smoke their own dope and ignore critical feedback.
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She warned him not to smoke his own dope if he wanted the project to succeed.
Synonyms
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9.9
To feel too proud of your own work or ideas and ignore other people's advice
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7.5
Cause trouble for yourself by your actions, often by accident
Acting in a way that harms you because you trust your own wrong ideas
Antonyms
How Self-Defeating
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6.6
- Slang
- Informal
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8.4
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4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal combination 'smoke' + 'your' + 'own' + 'dope' suggests consuming your own drug, so a learner can infer a metaphorical sense of being 'consumed by' or 'intoxicated with' something of your own making. However, this is slang and culturally marked; the specific sense of self-deception or undermining one's efforts ('being high on your own supply') is a metaphorical extension that a B1 learner who only knows the constituent words is unlikely to fully infer without exposure.
Etymology
Smoke your own dope may come from the picture of someone who literally smokes their own dope and gets so high that they lose touch with what is real, hearing only their own praise. So, it means 'to believe your own ideas too much' or to act in a way that hurts your own success.