成语故事：弄巧成拙To Outsmart Oneself

成语故事:弄巧成拙To Outsmart Oneself

弄巧成拙 

nòng qiǎo chéng zhuō  

To Outsmart Oneself

弄 means to make something or do something, 巧 means clever or skillful, 成 means to become, 拙 means something stupid. This idiom is used to describe people who try to be clever only to end up with a blunder, or "outsmart oneself", which can also be translated as " Get into trouble through so called clever means."

Literal meaning: to make something clever become something stupid.

Explanation:  to outsmart oneself; get into trouble through so called clever means

E.g

我本来想给女朋友一个生日惊喜去体验一下蹦极,没想到弄巧成拙:她有恐高症。

wǒ běn lái xiǎng gěi nǚ péng yǒu yī gè shēng rì jīng xǐ qù tǐ yàn yī xià bèng jí ,méi xiǎng dào nòng qiǎo chéng zhuō :tā yǒu kǒng gāo zhèng 。

I was intended to give my girlfriend a birthday surprise to have a bungee jumping, but she got into trouble through my so called clever means:She had an acrophobia.

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