go through a bad/difficult/rough/sticky patch
informalC2 to experience a lot of problems in a period of your life:
Andy's going through a rough patch at the moment - his wife wants a divorce.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Experiencing difficulties
- be
- be (caught) between a rock and a hard place idiom
- be climbing the walls idiom
- be for the high jump idiom
- be/come up against a brick wall idiom
- creek
- difficulty
- embattled
- fall into sth
- flounder
- frying pan
- leg
- out of the frying pan into the fire idiom
- patch
- pickle
- pressed
- pushed
- ride
- rocky road idiom
- thin
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