Psychologically: One can mend shoes with her, cover in the figurative sense a mental crisis temporarily, so that one can go on on the life again. Who injures himself with an awl, could suffer a loss which often turns out, however, only mental oppression which it is a matter to overcome. Popular: (arab).: prick themselves with it unintentional: your trouble is recompensed, from are stung intentionally with (negative feeling): a cunning on which you do not count will meet you, (European ones).: see: if Klatscherei registers, - frustration, work with it: growing prosperity, but not by own strains, injure themselves with it: big issues, if, besides, own blood flows: Annoyance because of member of the family. (ind).: consider more and only then act. (See also shoemaker)