bring to do
bring (someone or oneself) to (do something)
1. To cause or inspire someone to take a particular action. A desire to help my community brought me to volunteer at the local soup kitchen. Your mother and I just cannot fathom what would bring you to disrespect us like that.
2. To muster the courage or resolve to do something, typically something unpleasant or frightening. In this usage, a reflexive pronoun is used after "bring." I'm sorry, I just can't bring myself to eat snails.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
bring someone to do something
to cause someone to do something; to encourage someone to do something. What brought you to do this? I was brought to do this by a guilty conscience.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- bring (someone or oneself) to (do something)
- be in the soup
- inspire
- inspire (someone) with (something)
- inspire with
- inspire (something) in (someone)
- inspire in
- in the soup
- serve out
- imbue