borrow trouble

She told herself not to borrow trouble; things were bad enough as they were.

One date and I was already borrowing trouble that might never come up.

"Let's not borrow trouble by thinking any bigger than we have to!"

Well, as her grandmother used to say, why borrow trouble?

He's no discipline problem, and the other boys like him well enough, so maybe I'm borrowing trouble.

Unless there's a compelling reason in the story to do otherwise, why borrow trouble?

She'd deal with that when it happened; she wasn't going to borrow trouble.

"I may be borrowing trouble, but I've got to check it out."

But why should we borrow trouble in such large handfuls?

George Washington once stated that worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.