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go to the trouble
Idioms and Phrases
Also, take the trouble ; go to the bother or the expense . Make the effort or spend the money for something. For example, He went to the trouble of calling every single participant , or She took the trouble to iron all the clothes , or Don't go to the bother of writing them , or They went to the expense of hiring a limousine . [Second half of 1800s] Also see put oneself out .Example Sentences
Asked why he had decided to go to the trouble of seeking a hearing, Zeidman testified that he wanted the money and wanted to push back against stolen-election claims.
Bhushan, who lives in Methuen, Mass., a suburb of Boston, said heâs been looking for new work but has found that competition is fierce and some companies are not willing to go to the trouble of sponsoring his visa, known as an H1B.
âIf youâre going to go to the trouble of building a new one, wouldnât you want your headquarters relatively close to an existing FBI facility, your training academy? Well, that happens to be in Quantico,â Connolly said.
But some readers wondered: Why would cartels go to the trouble of making fake pills, and lacing them with deadly drugs?
If youâre wondering whether it sometimes feels soul-crushingly reminiscent of your job to go to the trouble of setting up a Zoom meeting and dropping a link for it into a dating app chat, my answer is that yes, it does, but I will defend it as no more embarrassing than the rest of dating, or really the rest of life.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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