pain in the ass
Americanidiom
Example Sentences
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Bad Boys For Life is like a less self-aware Hot Fuzz, a movie about how much of a pain in the ass it is to be cops who work with wannabe action heroes.
From The Verge ● Jan. 17, 2020
“He was one of those guys who had to be a pain in the ass in school,” said CBS’s Bill Raftery, a former partner on Big East basketball games.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2016
Community probably should have been canceled at the end of Season 3, when NBC fired the singular Dan Harmon, ’s creator, mastermind, genius, and pain in the ass.
From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2014
They are about self-acceptance and learning to live in the world without being a pain in the ass to everybody around you.
From Salon ● May 3, 2013
I saw that I had been selfish and unbending and a giant pain in the ass.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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