give trouble
Example Sentences
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“He has a great chance to give trouble to the other horses, which I never want.”
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2016
Then its new-type disk brakes began to give trouble, and it began to drop back.
From Time Magazine Archive
You’re not to fret, Matt; we mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadder.”
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
The connections with the earth plates very frequently give trouble, the wires corrode or become detached from the iron pipes etc., and then the circuit is broken.
From Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men by Bottone, S. R.
But she made a desperate effort to listen—not to be ill, not to give trouble.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
