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Discover LudwigThe phrase "invite trouble" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing actions or decisions that are likely to lead to problems or difficulties.
Example: "By ignoring the safety protocols, he was sure to invite trouble down the line."
Alternatives: "court disaster" or "ask for trouble."
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Saying "Qaddafi" aloud is thought to invite trouble.
These rather arbitrary time intervals seem to invite trouble.
For some women, suggesting that a man should use a condom can invite trouble.
Taking pictures on your mobile phone can be enough to invite trouble.
The manager, Nawar Sabah, said that the shop was open only to people he knew, because bringing in strangers might invite trouble.
This seemed to invite trouble, the situation being one in which Japanese and foreigners could not easily be kept in their places.
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Unsolicited visits from her landlord and his estranged wife, however, invite troubling conversations and memories of her flawed marriage and fraught relationship with her grown daughter, Aurelia, a perennially recovering addict.
It was almost as if they invited trouble – which they did at times – as a way of, in fact, inviting opportunity.
That invites trouble.
But that lack of diversity invites trouble.
Pitching to him under any circumstances invited trouble.
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