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for one's pains informal As an unfairly bad return for one’s efforts: he was sued for his pains...- You'll only get kicked and beaten and trampled on for your pains.
- Hal displays a couple of good trout, but the competitive youngsters Martin and Jim have nothing to show for their pains.
- Examiners of my essays constantly warn me about the perils of this ‘Post-Doctoral Thesis’ tendency, and I often incur mediocre marks for my pains.
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