cut off one's nose to spite one's face

"What and cut off your nose to spite your face in the process?"

You will have cut off your noses to spite your faces.

It's called cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Otherwise you may cut off your nose to spite your face."

Four more years of the Bush administration would be akin to cutting off your nose to spite your face.

"Elizabeth, are you perhaps, as they say, cutting off your nose to spite your face?

My advice to you, dear Slovak friends, is don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

You're so determined to justify the shell you built up around you that you'll cut off your nose to spite your face."

As much as I think the patent situation is ridiculous, isn't this just cutting off your nose to spite your face?

If ever there was a classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face, it is that of those people advocating 150 grammes.

The most drastic response that could have been made, to slash the department's funds, "would have been cutting off your nose to spite your face," he said.

But that's like cutting off your nose to spite your face, because Angelica blossoms are the best part - and the source, of course, of more Angelica progeny.

Some might say it's like cutting off your nose to spite your face, but I haven't bought any new music or movies in years because I simply refuse to give the industry my money.

Despite this, we will vote in favour because we believe that you should not cut off your nose to spite your face. No, the answer is to fight to obtain, as quickly as possible, what you are lacking.

Well if the only asset of value you still own is your house, destroying the school that gives your house its true value to a buyer seems like a version of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

And Stephen D. Bryen, a former Pentagon export control official and president of Secured Communications Technologies Inc., a maker of computer security equipment, said, "This is cutting off your nose to spite your face."

It would be an example of cutting off your nose to spite your face, if Parliament or the Commission were to say that they refuse to make further attempts to integrate the financial services if no progress were made in terms of the taxation package.

"Cutting off the nose to spite the face" is an expression used to describe a needlessly self-destructive over-reaction to a problem: "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face" is a warning against acting out of pique, or against pursuing revenge in a way that would damage oneself more than the object of one's anger.