Usually means: Exert effort with great care.
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  1. take (great) pains, take pains: Merriam-Webster
  2. take pains: Vocabulary.com
  3. take pains: Dictionary.com
  4. take pains: Rhymezone
  5. take pains: FreeDictionary.org
  6. take pains: Mnemonic Dictionary
  7. take pains: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. take pains: Wiktionary

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  1. take pains: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take pains)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To use care and effort (to do something) despite any corresponding trouble or inconvenience.

Similar:
be at pains, trouble, take the trouble, go to the trouble, go through the trouble, bother, make hard work of, strain every nerve, fash, tread carefully, more...

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be at pains, trouble, take the trouble, go to the trouble, go through the trouble, bother, make hard work of, strain every nerve, fash, tread carefully, more...



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