拨草寻蛇
      Explanation: Provoke the wicked metaphor, asking for trouble.
      Usage: -Linked; for the predicate; for trouble
      Source: Ming Tang, "The Peony Pavilion resuscitation": "Well, people really believe Liu Lang. Losses kill you to find dial grass snake, loss kill you sit back and wait."
      Examples: Change the current fear of the new Queen Mother obstruction, you anti ~, lifted the Queen Mother over there, it really mess things up! ("Late Literature Malaysia Cong note flat" Twelfth back)
  • Thesaurus:  ask for it, put one's finger in the fire