"nourish a viper in one's bosom" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From Aesop's fable The Farmer and the Viper.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nourishes a viper in one's bosom",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nourishing a viper in one's bosom",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nourished a viper in one's bosom",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nourished a viper in one's bosom",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "nourish a viper in one's bosom (third-person singular simple present nourishes a viper in one's bosom, present participle nourishing a viper in one's bosom, simple past and past participle nourished a viper in one's bosom)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To do acts of kindness that will be met with ingratitude and will cause one harm in the end."
      ],
      "id": "en-nourish_a_viper_in_one's_bosom-en-verb-93590TOj",
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "kindness",
          "kindness"
        ],
        [
          "ingratitude",
          "ingratitude"
        ],
        [
          "harm",
          "harm"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To do acts of kindness that will be met with ingratitude and will cause one harm in the end."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cherish a snake in one's bosom"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
          "word": "hřát si hada na prsou"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
          "word": "een adder aan zijn borst koesteren"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
          "word": "elättää käärmettä povellaan"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
          "word": "elättää kyytä povellaan"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
          "word": "réchauffer un serpent dans son sein"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
          "word": "eine Schlange am Busen nähren"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
          "word": "kígyót melenget a keblén"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "hodować żmiję na własnym łonie"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "prigrétʹ zmejú na grudí",
          "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "пригре́ть змею́ на груди́"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
          "word": "koynunda yılan beslemek"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "The Farmer and the Viper"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nourish a viper in one's bosom"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From Aesop's fable The Farmer and the Viper.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nourishes a viper in one's bosom",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nourishing a viper in one's bosom",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nourished a viper in one's bosom",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nourished a viper in one's bosom",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "nourish a viper in one's bosom (third-person singular simple present nourishes a viper in one's bosom, present participle nourishing a viper in one's bosom, simple past and past participle nourished a viper in one's bosom)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms derived from Aesop's Fables",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To do acts of kindness that will be met with ingratitude and will cause one harm in the end."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "kindness",
          "kindness"
        ],
        [
          "ingratitude",
          "ingratitude"
        ],
        [
          "harm",
          "harm"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To do acts of kindness that will be met with ingratitude and will cause one harm in the end."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cherish a snake in one's bosom"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "The Farmer and the Viper"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
      "word": "hřát si hada na prsou"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
      "word": "een adder aan zijn borst koesteren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
      "word": "elättää käärmettä povellaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
      "word": "elättää kyytä povellaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
      "word": "réchauffer un serpent dans son sein"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
      "word": "eine Schlange am Busen nähren"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
      "word": "kígyót melenget a keblén"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "hodować żmiję na własnym łonie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prigrétʹ zmejú na grudí",
      "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "пригре́ть змею́ на груди́"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to do kind deeds rewarded with harm",
      "word": "koynunda yılan beslemek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nourish a viper in one's bosom"
}