baffle
agonistes
treading
tussle
suborning
drop someone in it
counterstruggle
unbosoming
contend
scuffle
pathic
out to get someone
choker
lying
kick against the pricks
up a gum tree
go hard with someone
what doesn't kill you makes you stronger
writhing
lean into
like turkeys voting for Christmas
trouble
outflanking
enmesh
stumping
noncoper
zugzwang
come a gutser
ill turn
disservice
pickle
difficultate
sufferingly
cowardly lion
ill service
pull through
doling
scabrous
artful dodger
sulking
jostling
cringing
arm-wrestle
sparring
hash out
make one's bed and lie in it
take
struggly