brung
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It’s an awkward dance with a porcupine, especially if it was the porcupine who brung you to the dance in the first place.
From Washington Times • Feb. 20, 2023
After The Beguiled, Eastwood mostly danced with the one that brung him – scowling, frowning, doing that thing with the eye.
From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2017
“This is a huge deal to speak to the people who brung you to the dance,” Mr. Norquist said.
From New York Times • May 30, 2017
I also have a little bit of the “dance with the one that brung ya.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2016
Folks were still bringing Mrs. Holton food to help in her mourning and she brung lots of it along.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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