buy trouble



buy trouble

Fig. to encourage trouble; to bring on trouble. (As if certain acts would pay for or cause difficulties that would have to be suffered through.) I don't want to buy trouble. I have enough already. Saying something insulting to him is just buying trouble.
See also: buy, trouble

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Fortunatus-Late Roman
ViljamiVEEL-yah-meeFinnish
GittaGI-tahGerman
Deepali-Indian, Hindi, Marathi
RitvaREET-vahFinnish
KonstantinKAWN-stahn-teen (German), kahn-stahn-TEEN (Russian)German, Hungarian, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian