Read Edit View history 自讨苦吃 zìtǎokǔchī to ask for trouble Origin Definitions Defs 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)