A riddle ah riddle ah ree: If these speculations continue and it comes to fuition, why would a nation who culturally puts a high value on TRUST turn to someone who has betrayed friends, a team he was so much a part of and a nation? Advice for Mr.Nahkid:
Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face
Don’t engage in an act of anger or revenge that will hurt you more than it hurts anyone else.
What is the phrase, "to cut off one's nose to spite their face" means, and where does it come from?
: It means to do something, out of spite and desire to be difficult, that hurts oneself more than anyone else.
DON'T CUT OFF YOUR NOSE TO SPITE YOUR FACE - "Vengeful rage has led to many pointless and foolish acts.but none so stupid as those in which we try to get back at someone else by punishing ourselves.The current proverb was first recorded about 1200 as a Latin saying, 'He who cuts off his nose takes poor revenge for a shame inflected upon him.'." From "Wise Words and Wives' Tales: The Origins, Meanings and Time-Honored Wisdom of Proverbs and Folk Sayings Olde and New" by Stuart Flexner and Doris Flexner (Avon Books, New York, 1993). "By 1788 Peter Grose was defining it in his 'Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: 'He cut off his nose to be revenged of his face, said of one who, to be revenged of his neighbour, has materially injured himself.'" From "Dictionary of Cliches" by James Rogers (Wings Books, Originally New York: Facts on File Publications, 1985).
