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From: MDBG CC-CEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary 漢英字典

 聰明反被聰明誤 [ㄘㄨㄥ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄈㄢˇ ㄅㄟˋ ㄘㄨㄥ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄨˋ; cong1 ming2 fan3 bei4 cong1 ming2 wu4]
 a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself
 too smart for one's own good
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