sign own death warrant
sign (one's) own death warrant
To knowingly do something that will bring one trouble, punishment, or harm (and perhaps literally one's death). If you stay out past curfew again, you know you're signing your own death warrant, right? Testifying against the mob boss is like signing your own death warrant.
See also: death, own, sign, warrant
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
sign one's own death warrant
Fig. to do something (knowingly) that will most likely result in severe trouble. (As if one were ordering one's own execution.) I wouldn't ever gamble a large sum of money. That would be signing my own death warrant. The killer signed his own death warrant when he walked into the police station and gave himself up.
See also: death, own, sign, warrant
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- sign (one's) own death warrant
- sign one's own death warrant
- sign your own death warrant
- sign someone's death warrant
- sign (someone's) death warrant
- for the high jump
- as good as...
- good as, as
- as of now
- get hell for (something)