be asking for it/trouble
to be behaving stupidly in a way that is likely to cause problems for you:
Drinking alcohol before driving is really asking for trouble.
I'm not surprised she lost her job - she was really asking for it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Behaving in a silly way
- act/play the goat idiom
- be playing at sth idiom
- clown
- cut up
- faff
- faff about/around
- fart
- goof
- goof around
- horse around
- kid
- kid around
- mess
- monkey
- monkey around
- muck
- muck sb/sth about/around
- piss (sb) about/around
- play around
- spectacle
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