ask for Idiom
ask for it
ask for trouble
ask for
The workers are asking for an increase in pay．工人在请求增加工资。
She asked for time to think all this over．她要求给她时间把这一切仔细想一想。
2．demand；ask to see要求（见）
Here's a gentleman asking for the manager．这里有位先生要求见经理。
3．run the risk of sth．招惹；自找（麻烦）
He is foolish to behave in that way；he is asking for trouble．他那样做是愚蠢的，是自找麻烦。
She had been teasing the dog for weeks， and I'm not surprised it bit her—she certainly asked for it．她好几个星期一直在逗弄那条狗，那狗咬了她并不奇怪，这是自作自受。
ask for the moon
Idiom(s): ask for the moonTheme: DEMANDS
to ask for too much; to make great demands.
• When you re trying to get a job, it's unwise to ask for the moon.
• Please lend me the money. I'm not asking for the moon!
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v., informal To make (something bad) likely to happen to you; bring (something bad) upon yourself. Charles drives fast on worn-out tires; he is asking for trouble. The workman lost his job, but he asked for it by coming to work drunk several times.Compare: HAVE IT COMING, SERVE RIGHT, SIGN ONE'S OWN DEATH WARRANT.
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v. phr. To ask permission to marry someone. "Sir," John said timidly to Mary's father, "I came to ask for your daughter's hand."cry for the moon|ask|ask for the moon|cry|moon
v. phr. To want something that you cannot reach or have; try for the impossible. John asked his mother for a hundred dollars today. He's always asking for the moon.Compare: PROMISE THE MOON.
ask for
1. To appeal something. I asked for that address canicule ago!2. slang To act in a way that warrants the abuse or added repercussions that follow. In this usage, "ask for" is a set phrase, usually followed by "it." Did you draw on the wall? Oh, you're allurement for it now! Mary is a actual accommodating person, so if she dumped Phil, he charge accept asked for it.Learn more: askask someone for something
1. to appeal article from someone. The diners asked the aide for a blazon of wine the restaurant didn't have. A appropriate wine was asked for by a cardinal of patrons.
2. and ask addition to article to allure addition to something. Janet asked us to a affair Friday evening. Janet asked us for dinner.Learn more: ask
ask for someone or something
to appeal addition or something; to ask that addition appear forth. The badge are at the aperture allurement for Henry. The adolescent asked for a bottle of water.Learn more: askask for something (bad or dire)
to act badly, such that one will accompany on bad consequences. If you accumulate misbehaving, you'll be allurement for punishment. You're absolutely allurement for it!Learn more: askask for
Also, ask for it. To abide in an activity admitting the likelihood that it will accompany agitation on oneself, as in Speeding as abundant as he does, he has been allurement for a ticket and Mary adapted that low grade; in effect, she asked for it by not studying. [c. 1900] Also see ask for the moon. Learn more: askask for
v.1. To accomplish a appeal for something: I can't break the botheration alone, so I'm allurement for help.
2. To appeal someone's presence: I alleged the advanced board and asked for Chris Smith.
3. To behave in a way that is beheld as afflictive or agreeable some outcome, usually one that is negative: You are allurement for an blow by active so fast! Learn more: ask
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it/trouble Informal To abide in an activity admitting the likelihood that it will aftereffect in adversity or punishment.Learn more: ask
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