step on a rake

1.
Generalneutral
- To physically place one’s foot on the handle of a garden rake, causing the tines to flip up and strike the person who stepped on it.
2.
Generalinformalcolloquial
- To commit an obvious or clumsy blunder that backfires on the doer; to make a mistake that causes immediate and self-inflicted trouble.

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