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
Eren-Turkish
Ju-Wonjoo-wonKorean
JosephineJO-sə-feen (English), yo-ze-FEE-nə (German)English, German, Dutch
Unai-Basque
Ilyas-Arabic
TrÚC-Vietnamese