引鬼上门
yǐn​guǐ​shàng​mén

to bring trouble upon oneself

  • created sense approved 引鬼上门/引鬼上門 · yǐn​guǐ​shàng​mén · to bring trouble upon oneself — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    引鬼上门 / 引鬼上門

    yǐn​guǐ​shàng​mén

    to bring trouble upon oneself

    to invite a bad person or a source of trouble into one's home or life; literally "to invite a ghost to one's door"

    引 (literal) → 引 · yǐn · to cause 鬼 (literal) → 鬼 · guǐ · ghost 上门 (literal) → 上门/上門 · shàng​mén · to visit

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense