没事找事 — Chinese idiom
没事找事
méi shì zhǎo shì
Traditional: 沒事找事
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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