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  • 101Multiplication des pains — ● Multiplication des pains miracle selon lequel Jésus nourrit avec cinq ou sept pains et quelques petits poissons quatre ou cinq mille personnes venues écouter sa prédication dans le désert …

    Encyclopédie Universelle

  • 102false pains — ineffective pains resembling labor pains but not accompanied by effacement or dilatation of the cervix …

    Medical dictionary

  • 103bill of pains and penalties — see bill 1 Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

    Law dictionary

  • 104growing pains — growing .pains n [plural] 1.) problems and difficulties that happen when an organization or system is new ▪ the growing pains of a new republic 2.) pain that children who are growing feel in their arms and legs …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 105growing pains — growing ,pains noun plural 1. ) pains that children and teenagers sometimes get in their arms and legs because they are growing 2. ) early problems that an organization experiences when it is first starting in business …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 106take\ pains — v. phr. To do something very carefully and thoroughly. She had taken pains to see that her guests had everything that they could possibly want. She always takes pains with her appearance …

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  • 107take pains —    If you take pains to do something, you try very hard or make a special effort to do it as well as possible.     Great pains were taken to ensure the security of the athletes …

    English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • 108be at pains to do something — be at pains (to do something) to try very hard to make sure that you tell someone the correct information about something and that they understand it. The management was at great pains to stress that there are no plans for closing down the… …

    New idioms dictionary

  • 109be at pains — (to do something) to try very hard to make sure that you tell someone the correct information about something and that they understand it. The management was at great pains to stress that there are no plans for closing down the factory …

    New idioms dictionary

  • 110go to great pains (to do something) — go to/take great pains (to do something) to try very hard to do something. I went to great pains to get this record for you …

    New idioms dictionary