pain in the neck

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."

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.

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.

“It was as much a pain in the neck as it was a beauty to be in.”

The debt ceiling 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.