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Developed from pain in the neck, early-mid 20th century.
pain in the ass (countable and uncountable, plural pains in the ass)
- (slang, vulgar) Something or someone that causes discomfort or frustration.
- Synonyms: pain in the back, pain in the backside, pain in the bum, pain in the butt, pain in the keister, pain in the neck, pain in the rear; assache
- (attributive, slang, vulgar) Causing discomfort or frustration. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
2019 January 30, Tim Denning, Medium[1], retrieved 2025-02-07:Strangely enough, the days I spent at this pain-in-the-ass job were some of my most memorable and valuable.
something that causes discomfort
- Afrikaans: pyn in die nek
- Arabic: أَلَم فِي الْمُؤَخَّرَة (ʔalam fī l-muʔaḵḵara)
- Bashkir: мәшәҡәт (məşəqət)
- Catalan: gra al cul m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 眼中釘 / 眼中钉 (zh) (yǎnzhōngdīng)
- Czech: vopruz m, otrava (cs) m, prudič (cs) m, osina v zadku f, opruz (cs) m
- Finnish: riesa (fi), maanvaiva, kiusanhenki, kiusankappale (fi), piikki lihassa (fi)
- French: casse-pied (fr) m or f, emmerde (fr) f (thing), emmerdeur (fr) m (person), épine au pied (fr), pète-couilles m, pète-burnes m
- Galician: gran no cu m, foda (gl) f
- German: Nervensäge (de) f
- Greek: κακός μπελάς m (kakós belás)
- Hebrew: קוץ בתחת m (qots ba-'tahat)
- Hungarian: (approx.) púp a hátán, nyűg (hu), agyára megy, idegeire megy
- Italian: seccatura (it), rompicoglioni (it) m, scocciatore (it) m, palo in culo m (pole in the ass), rompipalle (it), seccatore (it) m, cagacazzo m or f, cacacazzo (it) m or f
- Persian: دردسر (fa) (dardesar)
- Polish: wrzód na tyłku, wrzód na dupie (pl)
- Portuguese: pé no saco (pt)
- Romanian: ghimpe în coaste, junghi în coaste, durere de cap, bătaie de cap, pacoste (ro)
- Russian: головна́я боль (ru) f (golovnája bolʹ) (headache), (colloquial, lit.: "hemorrhoid") геморро́й (ru) m (gemorrój) (lit.: hemorroids), зану́да (ru) m or f (zanúda) (of a person), зано́за в за́днице f (zanóza v zádnice) (splinter in the butt)
- Serbo-Croatian: gnjavaža (sh) f
- Spanish: patada en las bolas, patada en los huevos, coñazo (es), grano en el culo
- Yiddish: געשוויר אויפֿן הינטן (geshvir oyfn hintn)
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