pain in the neck
Example Sentences
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This isn’t merely a pain in the neck for Mr. Mandelson.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
You and I might translate that as: "The saga over Angela's tax was a total pain in the neck, but it's given us the excuse to make some of the changes we fancied anyway."
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2025
Dr. Sollmann pointed out that non-invasive treatment options that directly target the site of pain in the neck muscles could be highly effective and safer than systemic drugs.
From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2023
It came into being in 1917, when Congress grew weary of having to vote on every proposed bond issuance, which it considered a pain in the neck.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023
Maybe it wouldn’t hurt if she were a little more like Zane, a pain in the neck who didn’t care what anybody thought of him.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
