| 词汇 | sow the wind and reap the whirlwind |
| 词源 | sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. To do something wrong, the results of which are even worse for the perpetrator. The expression is from the Bible, (Hos. 8:7): “For they [Israel] have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.” |
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