go to the trouble of

The district-attorney decided that since he was obviously innocent, there was no need to go to the trouble of asking a court about it.

Some hilarious but true cases exist where attackers go to the trouble of setting up a fake ATM machine in a public place.

makers mostly prefer to guess at the figures rather than go to the trouble of ascertaining the truth.

You are sick now. What about I call your boyfriend over to look after you? --No. I'd rather not go to the trouble of having him here.

So when pollsters go to the trouble of calling some of these people, they are left guessing about how to weight their views.

Why should Russia go to the trouble of standing up for Serbia?

John told Mr. Brown not to go to the trouble of driving him home.

Yang Wei told Mr Li not to go to the trouble of driving him home.

A developer must go to the trouble of writing code to extract or package the true parameters or return values.

The more it is traveled, the less likely the person will go to the trouble of creating another path to reach the same destination.

I'd rather not go to the trouble of bringing it all in.

When you go to the trouble of setting goals, keep them to a manageable number that can realistically be followed up on.

When I want to take a close-up with the most recent, and expensive, DSLR, I have to go to the trouble of changing the lens first.