Example sentences of "shoot itself in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when Labour 's prospects are rosiest , it always seems to shoot itself in the foot . |
| 2 | Another leisure analyst , who declined to be named , said Airtours had ‘ shot itself in the foot ’ by announcing only last Monday estimated cost savings of £20 million in the 1993/94 financial year if the merger went unconditional . |
| 3 | It was bad enough having to admit that the APT train project was a dead duck , but BR shot itself in the foot and provided the cynical national media with a field day by selling off some of the vehicles to a Sheffield scrapyard . |
| 4 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |
| 5 | ‘ If , ’ he says , ‘ the city council grants full planning permission for The Galleries in the next few weeks , it will not simply be shooting itself in the foot but blowing off its entire leg . ’ |