ALL meanings of borrow trouble
bor·row trou·ble
B b - noun borrow trouble to worry about anything needlessly or before one has sufficient cause 3
- verb with object borrow trouble to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower. 1
- verb with object borrow trouble to use, appropriate, or introduce from another source or from a foreign source: to borrow an idea from the opposition; to borrow a word from French. 1
- verb with object borrow trouble Arithmetic. (in subtraction) to take from one denomination and add to the next lower. 1
- verb without object borrow trouble to borrow something: Don't borrow unless you intend to repay. 1
- verb without object borrow trouble Nautical. to sail close to the wind; luff. to sail close to the shore. 1
- verb without object borrow trouble Golf. to putt on other than a direct line from the lie of the ball to the hole, to compensate for the incline or roll of the green. 1
- idioms borrow trouble borrow trouble, to do something that is unnecessary and may cause future harm or inconvenience. 1
- verb borrow trouble To be needlessly troubled; to be overapprehensive. 0