Also,
pain in the ass or butt. A source of annoyance, a nuisance, as in Joan is a real pain in the neck, with her constant complaining, or Jack told his brother to stop being a pain in the ass. The first of these colloquial expressions dates from about 1900 and originated as a euphemism for the two less polite variants.
pain in the ass
| Idioms: pain in the neck |
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction, pain in the neck
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