ask for trouble

1. 1.

   persist with actions or an attitude despite the probability that it will cause trouble

   “He is asking for trouble with his behavior”

   Synonymsask for it

   Broaderpersevere

Questions about ask for trouble

What does ask for trouble mean?

ask for trouble means "persist with actions or an attitude despite the probability that it will cause trouble".

What is another word for ask for trouble?

Close synonyms include ask for it. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ask for trouble a common word?

ask for trouble is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.