difficulty

be difficult; run one hard, go against the grain, try one's patience, put one out; put to one's shifts, put to one's wit's end; go hard with one, try one; pose, perplex (uncertain); bother, nonplus, gravel, bring to a deadlock; be impossible; be in the way of (hinder)., meet with difficulties; labor under difficulties; get into difficulties; plunge into difficulties; struggle with difficulties; contend with difficulties; grapple with difficulties; labor under a disadvantage; be in difficulty, fish in troubled waters, buffet the waves, swim against the stream, scud under bare poles., have much ado with, have a hard time of it; come to the push, come to the pinch; bear the brunt., grope in the dark, lose one's way, weave a tangled web, walk among eggs., get into a scrape; bring a hornet's nest about one's ears; be put to one's shifts; flounder, boggle, struggle; not know which way to turn (uncertain); perdre son Latin; stick at, stick in the mud, stick fast; come to a stand, come to a deadlock; hold the wolf by the ears., render difficult; enmesh, encumber, embarrass, ravel, entangle; put a spoke in the wheel (hinder); lead a pretty dance.