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Be at pains   /bi æt peɪnz/   Listen
Be at pains

verb
1.
Try very hard to do something.  Synonym: take pains.






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"Be at pains" Quotes from Famous Books



... skill he had played his hand! Now the pursuit of the Maitland burglar would be abandoned; the news item suppressed at Headquarters. And it was equally certain that Maitland (when eventually liberated) would be at pains to keep his part of the affair very much ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance



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