rod for one's own breech

English

Noun

a rod for one's own breech

1. Alternative form of rod for one's back
   • 1674, Francis Kirkman, The English Rogue, printed by Anne Johnson (London), p. 224:

     [He] would have cheated him; but it prov'd he only made a rod for his own breech, and what he intended to him, was fallen upon himself.