a carpenter in a cangue——suffer from one’s own doing ❍ 小胳膊要硬和大腿别劲，那可是～——自作自受。(《高玉宝》39)You’re trying to pit an egg against a stone——just asking for trouble. ❍ 这真叫‘木匠戴枷，自作自受’呵。(黎汝清《海岛女民兵》43) This really is a case of ‘the carpenter in a cangue,self made to fit himself’！