go to the trouble

Idioms  

1. Also, take the trouble;. Make the effort or spend the money for something. For example, He went to the trouble of calling every single participant, or She took the trouble to iron all the clothes, or Don't go to the bother of writing them, or They went to the expense of hiring a limousine. [Second half of 1800s] Also see put oneself out.

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Example Sentences

Jackie says residents like her must go to the trouble of collecting a roll of clear pink bags from the local library, which is only open at specific times and on certain days.

From BBC

Why go to the trouble of stealing it?

From BBC

Kind of a cringey comedic bit between Trevor Noah and Bad Bunny that I won’t go to the trouble of play-by-playing here.

From Los Angeles Times

I’ve been all over the world looking at different places that had them across the 20th century, and in each case, there were very different legal systems in place, but the concentration camps are always an end run around to do mass detention without having to go to the trouble of due process or addressing people’s rights.

From Salon

“Knowing that Edward Ashton is alive is interesting, but to discover why he would go to the trouble of faking his own death would be more interesting still. And to think that, all these years, Lord Fredrick has believed his father to be dead, when it turns out he never died at all!”

From Literature