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.
Examples
Worry is the intrest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
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.