professional suicide

English

professional suicide (countable and uncountable, plural professional suicides)

(idiomatic) An action by a person that is expected to ruin their own career.
- 2019 October 4, Joe Davidson, “Perspective | Federal whistleblowers would do it again, even after retaliation and ‘professional suicide’”, in Washington Post‎^[1], retrieved 15 January 2021:
  “As a rule, whistleblowing is an act of professional suicide,” said Tom Devine, legal director of the Government Accountability Project that defends whistleblowers. The threat of retaliation “exponentially increases when Trump calls you a spy.”