ask for it vs bother

ask for it

verb
  • To provoke an unwanted action. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ask for, it. 

bother

verb
  • To annoy, to disturb, to irritate. 

  • To do something which is of negligible inconvenience. 

  • To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. 

intj
  • A mild expression of annoyance. 

noun
  • Fuss, ado. 

  • Trouble, inconvenience. 

How often have the words ask for it and bother occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )