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.
See also: great, pain

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Anne[æn]
Triinu-Estonian
Urbain-French
Ylli-Albanian
RupertRUY-pərt (Dutch), ROO-pərt (English), RUW-pert (Polish)German, Dutch, English, Polish
Torgeir-Norwegian