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Did you mean: sworn scorn shiren shouren shuren churn ?

tōu chéng shí lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom) / fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off / to go for wool and come back shorn

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