抽後腳 (cau1 hau6 goek3) — contradict what sb is saying with that person's own words; hold sb's mistakes against him in Cantonese

cauˉ¹hauˍ₆goek˗₃
抽后脚
Mandarin Pinyin: chou1 hou4 jiao3

Meaning of 抽後腳

nouncontradict what sb is saying with that person's own words; hold sb's mistakes against him
noun辮子
nounto sieze / pounce on someone's flaws and turning that against them; to exploit someone's shortcomings; to use one's own words to against them (usually by taking it out of context)

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He talks so much that people often use his own words to contradict him.
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