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go to the trouble

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go to the trouble (of doing something)
to make an effort to do something. If anyone had gone to the trouble of looking up his record, the police would not have released him.
See also: trouble


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ITEM: CNN's Lou Dobbs, during his television show Lou Dobbs Tonight on November 8, scolded opponents of a minimum-wage increase by pointing to initiatives that passed in several states: "When the voters go to the trouble of an initiative .
Some farmers, however, still found it easier to buy a container of chemical pesticide, than to go to the trouble of ecological methods.
If you're going to go to the trouble of posting the Tuscon weather on more than one page, then at least be consistent.
 
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