be at the plague | Idiomator

Meaning: (obsolete,idiomatic)Tobe bothered; to make the effort to do something.1748,Tobias Smollett,The Adventures of Roderick Random:One of a hundred a year, or so, is all I wish:—I would notbe at the plagueof paying land-tax for a larger.1818July 25,Jedediah Cleishbotham[pseudonym;Walter Scott],Tales of My Landlord, Second Series,[…](The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume(please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh:[…][James Ballantyne and Co.] forArchibald Constable and Company,→OCLC: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 beat the plague, an it binna when my bluid's up.

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