be at the plague

Definitions

To be bothered; to make the effort to do something.

idiomatic, obsolete

Examples

“One of a hundred a year, or so, is all I wish⟳:—I would not be at the plague of paying land-tax for a larger.”

“I am a man of few word but I am laird at hame, as weel as in the field; deil a brute or body about my house but I can manage⟳ when I like⟳, except Rory Bean, my powny; but I can seldom be at the plague, an it binna when my bluid's up.”

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