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词汇 your own worst enemy
释义
Idiom
your own worst enemy(your) own worst enemy
doing things yourself that prevent you from being liked or successful.
As a young player, Michael was his own worst enemy, arguing with the coach and other players and generally being unpleasant.
Usage notes: sometimes used in the form its own worst enemy, referring to something:
The company has made a number of bad decisions that have made it its own worst enemy.

(one's) own worst enemy

Causing complications to one's life and/or keeping oneself from success; self-destructive or self-sabotaging. Tommy's becoming his own worst enemy with the way he's been skipping school lately. She always sabotages a relationship when it's going really well because she's her own worst enemy.

your own worst enemy

COMMON If you say that someone is their own worst enemy, you mean that their own behaviour causes most of their problems. In a way I'm my own worst enemy — too critical and hard on myself. The patients are their own worst enemy. They keep missing appointments.
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