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