brung
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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
Sean, you gotta dance with the one who brung ya.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2022
After The Beguiled, Eastwood mostly danced with the one that brung him – scowling, frowning, doing that thing with the eye.
From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2017
When she saw Edward, she dropped the apron and clapped her hands together and said, “Oh, Lawrence, you brung me a rabbit.”
From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo
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