go to great pains

go to/take great pains to do something

to try very hard to do something I went to great pains to get this record for you.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Sylvester	sil-VES-tər (English)	English, Dutch, Danish, German
Maile	MIE-le	Hawaiian
Melchor	mel-CHOR	Spanish
Lexie	LEKS-ee	English
Susannah	[su:zænə]
Karen (1)	KAH-ren (Danish), KER-ən (English), KAR-ən (English)	Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, German, English