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To invite disaster
To land oneself in a disastrous situation
I can't open my eyes to watch you jumping into the fiery pit, for I will shut my eyes at the time.
But there are countless men to jump in the fire pit.

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Open the tool →跳火坑 (tiào huǒ kēng) means “to jump into a pit of misery, to invite disaster, to land oneself in a disastrous situation”.
跳火坑 is pronounced tiào huǒ kēng in Mandarin Chinese.
“To jump into a pit of misery” is 跳火坑 (tiào huǒ kēng) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 跳火坑, each with pinyin and an English translation.