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Cut Nose Spite Face Stay Home Ex Girlfriend Dance

Idiom Cut Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face
Example Don't stay home because your ex-girlfriend is going to the dance with Juan. Why cut off your nose to spite your face?
Meaning to injure yourself out of anger toward another; to make a situation worse for yourself when angry with someone
Origin Some people were using this proverb in Latin as early as 1200. There may have been a story about cutting off part of a long, ugly nose, only to succeed in disfiguring the whole face. Apply that same idea to any spiteful action you commit against another person that ends up harming only you.

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