自找麻烦

to ask for trouble / to invite difficulties

self / oneself / from / since / naturally / surely

to suffer as a consequence of one's own actions / you asked for it / to bring it on oneself (sth unpleasant)

to try to find / to look for / to call on sb / to find / to seek / to return / to give change

variant of 麻[ma2] / hemp

surname Ma

generic name for hemp, flax etc / hemp or flax fiber for textile materials / sesame / CL:縷|缕[lü3] / (of materials) rough or coarse / pocked / pitted / to have pins and needles or tingling / to feel numb

to look for trouble

trouble; inconvenience / inconvenient; troublesome; annoying / to bother sb; to put sb to trouble

to feel vexed / to bother / to trouble / superfluous and confusing / edgy