cut off one's nose to spite one's face
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“Cut off one's nose to spite one's face.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cut%20off%20one%27s%20nose%20to%20spite%20one%27s%20face. Accessed 9 December 2019.
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