攞lo2苦fu2嚟lei4辛san1

English

1. asking for trouble, get some unnecessary work for themselves
2. to volunteer to do unnecessary tasks, which turn out to be a waste of time or to bring suffering upon oneself

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 自發去做啲唔使自己做嘅嘢，到頭嚟自己辛苦咗，又好可能係唔抵、嘥晒啲時間嘅

Examples

• 因為雪糕有買一送一，搞到要排三個鐘隊去食呀？真係攞苦嚟辛呀！

  Now we have to stay in the queue for three hours just for the buy-one-get-one-free ice cream? What a pain!