be asking for trouble
to be likely to cause problems or difficulties for yourself:
Giving him such a powerful car when he's just started driving is asking for trouble.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing difficulties for oneself or others
- be a tall order idiom
- be your own worst enemy idiom
- bugger
- bugger sb about
- bugger sth up
- dig
- lay
- like pulling teeth idiom
- make a rod for your own back idiom
- make heavy weather of sth idiom
- overburden
- pitchfork sb into sth
- pose
- shoot
- store
- store sth up
- store up trouble/problems idiom
- subject sb/sth to sth
- suicidal
- wrong-foot
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