自讨苦吃 zìtǎokǔchī to ask for trouble Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 自讨苦吃 自討苦吃 zìtǎokǔchī to ask for trouble (idiom) to bring trouble or pain upon oneself; to make a rod for one's own back Frequency Movie subtitles 0.890 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.399 per million Cross-References Synonym 自找苦吃 zìzhǎokǔchī Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
自讨苦吃 自討苦吃 zìtǎokǔchī to ask for trouble (idiom) to bring trouble or pain upon oneself; to make a rod for one's own back Frequency Movie subtitles 0.890 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.399 per million Cross-References Synonym 自找苦吃 zìzhǎokǔchī Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)