go back on one's own words; break one's promise; fail to keep one's promise; fail to live up to one's promise; retract one's promise; turn back on what one has said
不得自食其言: promissory estoppel自食其果: reap what one has sown; be made to pay for one's rabid evildoings; as you brew, so must you drink.; as you make your bed, so you must lie in it.; eat one's own bitter fruit; eat the bitter fruit of one's own making; (those who play with fire will) have to abide by the consequence.; reap the harvest of one's misdeeds; reap the result of one's own sowing; redound [rebound] upon oneself; self do, self have.; suffer as a result of one's actions; suffer the consequences of one's action [one's own doing]自食其果法: boomerang自食其力: support oneself; earn one's own living; earn one's salt; live by the sweat of one's brow; live on one's hump [toil]; live on [by] one's own toil [labor]; live on the earnings of one's own work; self-supporting; support oneself by one's own labor自食其力, 自立: earn one's salt自食其力的: independent让某人自食其果: give enoughrope; give sb enough rope应该自食其力了: the boy has reached an adult age and ought to be earning his own living你应当学会自食其力: you should learn to stand on your own two feet自食其力的未婚女子: no.bachelor girl自食其力之独身女子: bachelor自食: [天文學] reversal让表示不知道那个人自食其果: give sb enough rope是（为做某事）付出代价，自食其果的意思。: pay the price他过去是个小偷，但现在是个自食其力的人。: he was a second-story man，but now he can earn his own living食其: a surname 短語和例子 食其寧 yiji ning听其言: to wait to see what he will say and what he will do审食其: shen yiji食其宁: yiji ning郦食其: li yiji察其言,观其行: examine his words and watch his deedscheck what he says against what he does非手自食器: nonhands self-feeder审如其言: what he says is indeed true听其言,观其行: listen to what one says and look at what one doesjudge people by their deeds,not just by their wordslisten to a person's words and watch his deeds
其他语言
自食其言的日语：〈成〉約束を破る.食言する.自食其言的韩语：【성어】 식언(食言)하다.自食其言的俄语：pinyin:zìshíqíyán нарушить своё слово自食其言什么意思：zì shí qí yán 【解釋】指說了話不算數。 【出處】明·馮夢龍《醒世恒言·三孝廉讓產立高名》：“我若今日復出應詔，是自食其言了。” 【拼音碼】zsqy 【燈謎面】說服 【用法】主謂式；作謂語、賓語、定語；含貶義 【英文】break one's promise
