concern (someone) with (someone or something)

concern (someone) with (someone or something)

1. To involve someone in something to the extent that they feel partly responsible for dealing with it. You really don't need to concern your mother with our financial issues—we're perfectly capable of sorting them out on our own. Don't concern the boss with the minutiae of this project. All he cares about is the finished product. Why would you concern Gina with the fact that we plagiarized? She's liable to turn us in!
2. To cause someone to worry about something. I don't want to concern my parents with this news until we get more information about how serious the illness is. What bad news is the boss going to concern us with this time? Mergers? Layoffs? Don't concern Mom with this, OK? She doesn't need to know that I got into another fight at school.
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concern someone with someone or something

to busy someone with someone or something; to worry someone with thoughts of someone or something. I hope Jennifer does not concern herself with this matter. Try to concern him with something other than his work.
See also: concern
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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