make trouble out of nothing
Making trouble out of nothing is a Chinese idiom pronounced w ú sh ì sh ē NGF ē I, which refers to making trouble without cause. It's from flowers in the mirror.
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym] make something out of nothing
Idiom usage
The argument is totally groundless.
The origin of Idioms
Chapter 58 of Jing Hua Yuan written by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty: "there are robbers who are uneasy, there are robbers who make trouble."
make trouble out of nothing
as like as an apple is to an oyster - jié rán bù tóng
a thorn for a hairpin and plain cloth for a skirt - chāi jīng qún bù