boomerang

1. N-COUNT A boomerang is a curved piece of wood that comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there. 回旋飛標

2. V-I If a plan boomerangs, its result is not the one that was intended and is harmful to the person who made the plan. 使(計劃者)自作自受

The trick boomeranged, though. 但是，這個詭計使人自作自受。

He risks defeat in the referendum that he called, but which threatens to boomerang against him. 他冒著失敗的風險呼吁全民投票，但這很可能會使他面臨自作自受的危險。