be asking for trouble (or it)
informal Behave in a way that is likely to result in difficulty for oneself: it would simply be asking for trouble for me to spend the night here...- With only half an hour until curtain up at the Odeon, we quickly decide that choosing a dessert would simply be asking for trouble - though it proves to be yet another Promethean struggle to get the bill.
- Any more than that and you were asking for trouble.
- Of course, these kids were asking for trouble with their actions.
See parent entry: ask