rod for one's own breech

Noun

 * 1) * 1674, Francis Kirkman, The English Rogue, printed by Anne Johnson (London), p. 224:
 * [He] would have cheated him; but it prov'd he only made a rod for his own breech, and what he intended to him, was fallen upon himself.
 * [He] would have cheated him; but it prov'd he only made a rod for his own breech, and what he intended to him, was fallen upon himself.