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
As he says nearly every time he speaks before union crowds, including audiences of longshoremen: “Folks, there’s an expression where I come from: ‘You go home with them that brung you to the dance.’
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2022
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
Still, since you brung it up, I’ll say this: my feeling bout buryin’ ain’t the same as your’n.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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