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Ask For Trouble

Definition: Ask For Trouble

Ask For Trouble

Verb

1. Persist with actions or an attitude despite the probability that it will cause trouble; "He is asking for trouble with his behavior".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Ask For Trouble

Synonym: ask for it (v). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Ask For Trouble

Language Translations for "ask for trouble"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

e kërkoj sherrin vete. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏أبلى نفسه, ‏بحث عن المشاكل. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

търся си белята (head for trouble). (various references)

   

Czech

  

koledovat si o problém. (various references)

   

French

  

chercher les embêtements, chercher des ennuis. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ζητώ φασαρία. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל'רום צרות לעצמו. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

keresi a bajt (to ask for trouble, to look for trouble). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

askay orfay oubletray

   

Portuguese

  

criar problema (cause a problem, stir up trouble). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se urî cu binele, cãuta pricinã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

лезть на рожон (ask for it, show hackles). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izazivati nevolju. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

buscarse problemas. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ställa till det för sig, mucka gräl. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

aranmak (ask, ask for it, be looked for, be spoiling for, court, pick a quarrel, seek, seek a quarrel, trail one's coat), kaşınmak (ask, itch, itch for trouble, scratch), belâ aramak (itch for trouble, trail one's coat). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Ask For Trouble

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-k-l-o-o-r-r-s-t-u"

-4 letters: absoluter, arboreous, basketful, breakouts, brooklets, freakouts, labourers, outbreaks, outfables, tabourers, troublers.

-5 letters: aborters, absolute, arborous, baluster, barefoot, barstool, bloaters, blurters, boastful, boatfuls, bookfuls, booklets, bookrest, breakout, brooklet, floaters, floorers, flouters, footlers, forbears, forestal, forsaker, frakturs, freakout, laborers, labourer, outbakes, outbarks, outbreak, outfable, outroars, realtors, refloats, refutals, relators, restoral, robuster, roseolar, rosulate, rubeolar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ask For Trouble


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 73 6B      46 6F 72      54 72 6F 75 62 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110011 01101011 00100000 01000110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01010100 01110010 01101111 01110101 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#115 &#107 &#32 &#70 &#111 &#114 &#32 &#84 &#114 &#111 &#117 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0073 006B      0046 006F 0072      0054 0072 006F 0075 0062 006C 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3585772408184254848187687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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