"I'm-a no look-a for trouble, because-a trouble, she's-a no good," he would often say, in his beloved fake Italian accent.
After a tricky few days playing host to Donald Trump, the Belgian prime minister, Charles Michel, may have hoped for a trouble-free few days.
I'm sure the atmosphere will get a little more heated as kick-off approaches and the game starts, but let's hope for a trouble-free encounter and a clean game.
"I knew he had plenty of talent," Dettori said "I was concerned about his [lack of] experience, so I was looking for a trouble-free race and I got one.
Officials overseeing preparations for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 had been hoping for a trouble-free runup to those Games, following criticism of the cost of hosting the event and of the design of the planned main stadium.
Even so you need to expect to pay at least five figures for a trouble-free example, a legacy of a model which besides its genuine cult status is a real and properly fast sports car - and one whose uniquely rakish style Francophiles still find hard to resist.
"One of our greatest fears is that if these issues are not addressed in time for May 10, then we are headed for a trouble-filled Election Day with many disenfranchised voters," the group said last month, a few days after participating in field tests of the machines.
The mêlée outside was so chaotic that we were unable to reach our taxi back to the hotel, so what was then the Royal Ulster Constabulary, who had been happily watching on, stepped in, clearing a passage through the throng and ushering us into a police van for a trouble-free ride back to the hotel.
If I don't have this, you are asking for trouble, for a problem.
Retailing has been a trouble spot for some time.
