ask for trouble
Example Sentences
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When you ask for trouble, the world often obliges.
From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022
A very early sign that Liverpool are in the mood to go for it, because sitting back would just ask for trouble?
From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2015
A very early sign that Liverpool are in the mood to go for it, because sitting back would just ask for trouble?
From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2015
This approach seemed calculated not merely to ask for trouble but require it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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On every other count I was going out of my way to ask for trouble and had nothing but my lucky star to thank for having avoided it.
From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)