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H.L. Mencken

(Life magazine, August 5, 1946)

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

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go to the trouble

[go to the trouble] or [take the trouble] {v. phr.} To make trouble or extra work for yourself; bother. * /John told Mr. Brown not to go to the trouble […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

borrow trouble

[borrow trouble] {v. phr.} To worry for nothing about trouble that may not come; make trouble for yourself needlessly. * /Don't borrow trouble by worrying about next year. It's too […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

In the August 1993 issue, page 9, of PS magazine, the Army's magazine of preventive maintenance

A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit. www.english-slang.com

D. D. Flynn, Look magazine, 1983

The trouble with trying to get away from it all nowadays is that most of it is portable. www.english-slang.com

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