Word info

borrow trouble

Verb

Meaning

borrow trouble (third-person singular simple present borrows trouble, present participle borrowing trouble, simple past and past participle borrowed trouble)

(idiomatic) To be needlessly troubled; to be overapprehensive.

borrow trouble (third-person singular simple present borrows trouble, present participle borrowing trouble, simple past and past participle borrowed trouble)

(idiomatic) To be needlessly troubled; to be overapprehensive.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Worry is the intrest paid by those who borrow trouble. George Washington

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. Rudyard Kipling

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. Dorothy Dix

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