🐍 Snake
"Raise a snake in your bosom"
Meaning
To help someone who later hurts you.
About the snake
Snakes are cast as deceptive and dangerous in folklore, which is why their idioms describe betrayal or hidden threats.
Example sentence
He trusted the cheat with his money and raised a snake in his bosom.
Test yourself
Which idiom means...
To help someone who later hurts you.