Meaning of pain in the neck | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone or something which is annoying, irritating or inconvenient.

idiomatic, slang

Examples

“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!””

“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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