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take special pains
verb as in bend over backwards
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Example Sentences
Take special pains to enter into the minds and feelings of others.
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Yet for the next three days at least, he would take special pains to keep every hair in its place, simply to please little sister.
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Indeed the priests take special pains to proclaim unbelief and immorality as one and the same thing.
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Take special pains with the letter r, as carelessly made it is easily mistaken for v or y.
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Admonished by her loss to set his affairs in order he began to take special pains in providing for the future of his books.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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