pain in the neck

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pain in the neck (plural pains in the neck)

  1. (idiomatic, slang) Someone or something which is annoying, irritating or inconvenient.
    Synonyms: pain in the ass, pain in the butt, pest, nuisance
    • 2022 November 19, Clarence Page, “Sometimes offensive comedy is just lazy laughs”, in Chicago Tribune[1]:
      OK, call me a hypersensitive liberal, if you want. It wouldn’t be the first time. I can be a pain in the neck about racial, ethnic and religious bias sometimes, but I think it’s better to be hypersensitive than insensitive.

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