store up trouble/problems
to act in a way that will make your problems much worse in the future:
If you don't deal with the problem now, you'll be storing up trouble for yourself in the future.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing difficulties for oneself or others
- be a tall order idiom
- be asking for trouble idiom
- be your own worst enemy idiom
- bugger
- bugger sb about
- dig
- lay
- lay yourself open to attack, criticism, ridicule, etc. idiom
- like pulling teeth idiom
- make a rod for your own back idiom
- make heavy weather of sth idiom
- overburden
- pose
- shoot
- spell trouble idiom
- store
- store sth up
- subject sb/sth to sth
- suicidal
- wrong-foot
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