hara-kiri

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"We cannot commit hara-kiri with the hope of hurting Russia"

From Reuters • Apr. 20, 2022

Campaign strategists largely regard unprompted confessionals as a pointless form of political hara-kiri.

From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2018

Some said it could have been "a little bit of professional hara-kiri," he said.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2013

But Mr. Granet insists that he is there ton prevent the kind of brand hara-kiri suffered by Rachel Ashwell, the creator of Shabby Chic, a popular line that includes overstuffed sofas.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2011

Finally, the leaders, Enomoto and Matsudaira Tarō, seeing that it was hopeless to contend longer against a constantly increasing enemy, offered to commit hara-kiri, in order that their followers might be saved by a surrender.

From Japan by Murray, David