brung
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We’re setting aside most franchises, since you have to dance with the IP that brung ya.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
It’s an awkward dance with a porcupine, especially if it was the porcupine who brung you to the dance in the first place.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
And as the skies turn gloomy Night winds whisper to me, “Y’all better have brung ID!”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2021
Mr. Biden told the crowd, “We have an expression where I come from: You never forget those who brung you to the dance.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2020
Sir Charles and the other white man brung their heads together and started talking.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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