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

“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

Why go to the trouble of leaving the house to find something to read when you can stare at the phone in your hand?

From The Wall Street Journal

Bhushan, who lives in Methuen, Mass., a suburb of Boston, said he’s been looking for new work but has found that competition is fierce and some companies are not willing to go to the trouble of sponsoring his visa, known as an H1B.

From Washington Post

“If you’re going to go to the trouble of building a new one, wouldn’t you want your headquarters relatively close to an existing FBI facility, your training academy? Well, that happens to be in Quantico,” Connolly said.

From Washington Post

If you’re wondering whether it sometimes feels soul-crushingly reminiscent of your job to go to the trouble of setting up a Zoom meeting and dropping a link for it into a dating app chat, my answer is that yes, it does, but I will defend it as no more embarrassing than the rest of dating, or really the rest of life.

From Slate