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If you play with fire, you get burned
If you play with fire, you get burned.
Prov. If you do something dangerous, you will get hurt. Joe said, "I have no sympathy for race-car drivers who get injured. They should know that if you play with fire, you get burned." My mother always told us that experimenting with hard drugs was playing with fire.