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Hungarian
Etymology
maga (“oneself”) + alatt (“under”) + vág (“to cut”) + -ja (personal suffix) + a (“the”) + fa (“tree”) + -t (accusative suffix), literally “to cut the tree under oneself”
Pronunciation
Verb
maga alatt vágja a fát
- (idiomatic) to saw off the branch one is sitting on, to shoot oneself in the foot (to act against one's own interests, to act self-destructively)
Conjugation