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Pain in the neck

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something which is annoying, irritating or inconvenient. idiomatic, slang

    "Got to know McTodd, found he wasn’t coming to the castle, and came down instead of him, same as me. Only he got there first, damn him! Wouldn’t that give you a pain in the neck!”"

  2. 2
    something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness wordnet

Etymology

First attested in the 1920s.

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