take pains with
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By the nineteen-thirties, he seems too preoccupied to take pains with his style.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015
Yes, we do have a good view of the stage, that is true; but we can't be seen—it is hardly worth while to take pains with one's dress.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de
Elaborate, e-lab′or-āt, v.t. to labour on: to produce with labour: to take pains with: to improve by successive operations.—adj. wrought with labour: done with fullness and exactness: highly finished.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
If we take pains with our drains and water supply, so that human excrement does not get into it, and if we destroy the filth-carrying housefly, we do not have epidemics of typhoid.
From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton
The schoolmaster's wife liked handsome children.—"What a genius will Master Ferdinand Fitzroy be, if you take pains with him!" said she, to her husband.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) by Various
