pressure point
enmesh
catch a cold
where the shoe pinches
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counterdifficulty
up the pole
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hard-set
kink
swamp
premortem
entangled
hard sledding
get into trouble
rocky
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goof up
teachable moment
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a bad penny always turns up
put a hurt on
trouble
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praemunire
copout
take on water
beleaguered
gotcha
eventually
in a bind
uphill
problematics
hitch
problematize
hardpressed
bitch
can of worms
weak
another nail in someone's coffin
if it's not one thing it's another
bog
hard hit
goat rope
rub along
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metaproblem
killer
P-complete
monkey wrench
hurdlesome
doo-doo
autopsy
hard nut to crack
resolution
tough nut to crack
up a gum tree
rub
solving
do-or-die
tatter
tsuris
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flop era
master key
distress
catch
pass
die on the vine
straiten
straits
head
gimmick
crack
multiproblematic
questionable
dicky
in difficulties
waver
fallible
no-win situation
unmess
problematic
hash out
come out in the wash
hardship
appeal
hard as nails
make one's bed and lie in it
keep the show on the road
crossroads
critical point
look for trouble
smashup
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rocky
beleaguered
hardpressed
weak
hard hit
hurdlesome
problem
do-or-die
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resolution
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die on the vine
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unmess
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come out in the wash
appeal
make one's bed and lie in it
keep the show on the road
look for trouble
noun
- A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
- A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
- Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
- A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
verb
adj
- Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.
- In the style of rock music.
- Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
- Like a rock; rigid, solid.
- Having a habitat around or on rocks.
- Easily rocked; unstable.
- Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
noun
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- the responsibility to do something
- the performance of a piece of work
- a damaging piece of work
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a crime (especially a robbery)
verb
noun
- A difficulty or predicament.
- Crime, offence, wrongdoing.
- Any of a number of criminal offences incurring similar penalties to the original offence of praemunire.
- The penalty for this offence.
- The offence in English law of bringing suit in or obeying a foreign (especially papal) court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown. The offence was created by the Statute of Praemunire 1393 (16 Richard II, chapter 5), and abolished by the Criminal Law Act 1967 (chapter 58).
- The writ charging a person with this offence, the writ of praemunire facias.
verb
noun
- A potential problem or source of trouble.
- A feature of a system or a program that works in the way it is documented but is counter-intuitive and almost invites mistake or non-function.
- An attempt to disprove or refute someone's argument, usually in a deceptive or disingenuous way.
- An instance of publicly tricking someone or exposing them to ridicule, especially by means of an elaborate deception.
- An instance of accomplishing a tricky idea or overcoming a difficult obstacle.
abbrev
- Understand you; comprehend you.
- Got you covered, got your back; when you have an advantage or responsibility over someone.
- Got you; have you; as in capture or apprehend.
- Got you back; as in after causing some form of retaliation or revenge against someone.
- Got you by surprise; exclamation indicating a successful trick or prank.
noun
- A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
- A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
- A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
- A sudden pull.
- A period of time spent in the military.
- Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
- A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
verb
- To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
- To attach, tie or fasten.
- To pull with a jerk.
- To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
- To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
- To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
adj
- likely to fail under stress or pressure
- overly diluted; thin and insipid
- (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- tending downward in price
- deficient or lacking in some skill
- lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
- (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection
- not having authority, political strength, or governing power
- deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
- deficient in intelligence or mental power
adj
noun
- Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
- The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
- A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
- An act or instance of defecation.
- A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
verb
- To make a mess of something.
- To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
- To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
- To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
- To defecate, to void one's bowels.
- To cover or spray with excrement.
- To sink and stick in bogland.
- To go away.
noun
- An ill-advised solution to contain a problem; a solution that will eventually fail.
- A convoluted issue that is contested by many parties.
- A rodeo event in which competitors attempt to lasso a goat, usually for younger participants.
- A confusing, disorganized situation often attributed to or marked by human error.
prep_phrase
noun
- finding a solution to a problem
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
- the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together
- the trait of being resolute
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- analysis into clear-cut components
- (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture
- the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung)
- (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner
prep_phrase
noun
- A difficulty or problem.
- A loan.
- An act of rubbing.
- In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
- Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
- A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
verb
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To touch the jack with the bowl.
- To be rubbed against something.
- To rub something against (a second thing).
- To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
noun
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- the quantity that was caught
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- to hook or entangle
- attract and fix
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- reach in time
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- be struck or affected by
- check oneself during an action
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- see or watch
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- detect a blunder or misstep
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- come down with
- start burning
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- attract; cause to be enamored
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- take in and retain
- spread or be communicated
- be the catcher
- become aware of
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
noun
- a difficult juncture
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- (military) a written leave of absence
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- a complimentary ticket
- a usually brief attempt
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
verb
- go across or through
- move past
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- for time to move forward
- place into the hands or custody of
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- travel past
- come to pass
- go unchallenged; be approved
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- pass over, across, or through
- transmit information
- disappear gradually
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- be superior or better than some standard
- accept or judge as acceptable
- allow to go without comment or censure
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- throw (a ball) to another player
- be inherited by
- cause to pass
- grant authorization or clearance for
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
adj
noun
- a difficult juncture
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- a single domestic animal
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- a person who is in charge
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- the top of something
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- an individual person
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a rounded compact mass
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- forward movement
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the subject matter at issue
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- the striking part of a tool
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- oral stimulation of the genitals
verb
verb
- To solve a difficult problem.
- To change rapidly in register.
- To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- To form cracks.
- To make a cracking sound.
- To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- To make a crack or cracks in.
- To make a sharply humorous comment.
- To open slightly.
- To overcome a security system or component.
- To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- To strike forcefully.
- To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- To tell (a joke).
- To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- To cause to make a sharp sound.
- To realize that one is transgender.
- To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).
- To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
adj
noun
- An attempt at something.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- Vagina.
- The space between the buttocks.
- A narrow opening.
- Any sharp sound.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- a meaningful chat.
- Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- Business; events; news.
- Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
adj
noun
- A leather apron for a gig, etc.
- The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.
- A louse.
- Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.
- A haddock.
- A small bird; a dicky-bird.
- An insignificant sound or thing; dicky-bird.
- A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.
- A pilot.
- A hedge sparrow.
- A donkey.
noun
verb
- To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
- To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
- To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
- To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
- To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
- To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
noun
verb
- challenge (a decision)
- take a court case to a higher court for review
- request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
- be attractive to
- cite as an authority; resort to
noun
- earnest or urgent request
- attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
- (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial
- request for a sum of money
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