cut off one's nose to spite one's face

Injure oneself out of pique. For example, Staying home because Meg was invited first is cutting off your nose to spite your face . Similar hyperboles appeared in several Latin proverbs; in English the expression was first recorded in 1561.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Nikhil	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Odia, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil
Papa	-	Polynesian Mythology
Aparajita	-	Bengali, Indian, Hindi
Blanka	BLAHN-kah (Czech, Slovak, Polish, Croatian), BLAWN-kaw (Hungarian)	Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian
Franc	-	Slovene
Aroldo	ah-ROL-do	Italian