自讨苦吃 (zì tǎo kǔ chī) | Meaning: (idiom) to ask for trouble; to make a rod for one's own back | Chinese Idiom with Pinyin & Origin

to bring trouble on oneself (idiom)自寻烦恼zì xún fán nǎo

to invite a snub · to court a rebuff自讨没趣zì tǎo méi qù

to ask for trouble · to invite difficulties自找麻烦zì zhǎo má fan

to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising · hoist by his own petard作茧自缚zuò jiǎn zì fù

(idiom) to reap what one has sown; to stew in one's own juice自作自受zì zuò zì shòu

guilty and deserves to be punished (idiom); entirely appropriate chastisement · the punishment fits the crime罪有应得zuì yǒu yīng dé

(idiom) to ask for trouble; to make a rod for one's own back