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
“These are the folks, as that saying goes up in Claymont, who ‘brung me to the dance,’” he said in a February visit to his campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, just 15 minutes south of Claymont, where he attended high school.
From Seattle Times
He told the United Auto Workers in Michigan that same month that they “brung me to the dance … and I never left you.”
From Seattle Times
Mr. Biden took a trip to Milwaukee on Wednesday to speak to the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce, where he told them, “You brung me to the dance.”
From Washington Times
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
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