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pain in the neck
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | pain in the neck - a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain"nuisance, paindisagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable | | 2. |  pain in the neck - something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"pain in the ass, bother, botheration, infliction, annoyance, painnegative stimulus - a stimulus with undesirable consequencesnuisance - (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensiveirritant, thorn - something that causes irritation and annoyance; "he's a thorn in my flesh"plague - an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague" |
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pain in the neck
pain in the neckAn especially irritating, aggravating, or obnoxious person, thing, or situation. You know, Jack, you may be my friend, but you can be a real pain in the neck sometimes! This calculus homework is a pain in the neck. It's not that I don't understand it, it's just so tedious!See also: neck, painpain-in-the-neck(used before a noun) Very irritating, aggravating, or obnoxious. I've still got a few pain-in-the-neck jobs to do around the farm before I can call it quits for the day. We're having Mary over for dinner tomorrow night. I just hope her pain-in-the-neck husband doesn't come along as well.pain in the neckFig. a bother; an annoyance. This assignment is a pain in the neck. Your little brother is a pain in the neck.See also: neck, painpain in the neckAlso, 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. See also: neck, paina pain in the neck INFORMALCOMMON If someone or something is a pain in the neck, they are very annoying. He was a pain in the neck. I was glad when he left my department. `Sorry,' he said. `They've forgotten to insure the plane. It's a pain in the neck, but what can I do?'See also: neck, paina pain in the neck an annoying or tedious person or thing. informal There are a number of vulgar slang alternatives to neck in this idiom, such as a pain in the arse or, in the USA, ass .See also: neck, paina pain in the ˈneck (British English also a pain in the ˈarsetaboo/ˈbum/ˈbackside) (American English also a pain in the ˈasstaboo/ˈbutt) (informal) a person or thing that you find annoying: Her new boyfriend is a real pain in the neck — he never stops talking.See also: neck, painpain in the neck n. a difficult or annoying thing or person. (see also pain in the ass.) My boss is a pain in the neck. See also: neck, painpain in the neck, aA nuisance. This term replaced the earlier pain in the stomach about the turn of the twentieth century; both are euphemisms for a pain in the posterior—pain in the butt, pain in the ass. Rolling Stone (April 7, 1977) had it: “It was an increasing pain in the ass to do the same material each night.”See also: painEncyclopediaSeepainSee PITN
See PITNpain in the neck
Synonyms for pain in the necknoun a bothersome annoying personSynonymsRelated Words- disagreeable person
- unpleasant person
noun something or someone that causes troubleSynonyms- pain in the ass
- bother
- botheration
- infliction
- annoyance
- pain
Related Words- negative stimulus
- nuisance
- irritant
- thorn
- plague
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