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自讨苦吃
zì​tǎo​kǔ​chī

ask for trouble

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
自讨苦吃 (自討苦吃) zì​tǎo​kǔ​chī
ask for trouble expression
(idiom) to ask for trouble; 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

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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