go to trouble

idiom

chiefly US
: to do something that causes one extra work
You didn't have to go to all that trouble for me.

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“Go to trouble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20to%20trouble. Accessed 29 Mar. 2023.

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