没事找事 — Chinese idiom

Meaning

• to ask for trouble; to stir up trouble for no reason

Character by character

• 没méinot, none, gone; to bury; to sink, to drown
• 事shìaffair, matter, business; to serve; accident, inci
• 找zhǎoto search for, to look for, to find; change (as in
• 事shìaffair, matter, business; to serve; accident, inci

Idioms sharing a character

• 全军覆没 quán jūn fù mò
• 功不可没 gōng bù kě mò
• 没吃没穿 méi chī méi chuān
• 没头没脸 méi tóu méi liǎn
• 没齿难忘 mò chǐ nán wàng
• 神出鬼没 shén chū guǐ mò
• 一事无成 yī shì wú chéng
• 不明事理 bù míng shì lǐ
• 事不过三 shì bù guò sān
• 事不关己 shì bù guān jǐ

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