Asking for trouble

If you do something that is likely to have negative consequences, you are “asking for trouble.”

If you leave your car unlocked and a laptop clearly in view on the front seat, you are asking for trouble. It’s possible that nothing bad will happen. But doing that is likely to result in theft of your laptop. So it’s “asking for trouble.”

In today’s story, I said that Yevgeny Prigozhin was asking for trouble. He was exiled to Belarus after threatening the Russian government. Then, just weeks later, he was back on his private plane flying around Africa and Russia.

Given how much trouble he was in, returning to Russia was “asking for trouble.” And, as I said, he got trouble when his plane crashed.