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
My passport would be no good, for the number of that pass would long ere this have been wired to every police-station in Germany, and to produce it would be to ask for trouble.
From Greenmantle by Buchan, John
