| bad luck | | |
| n. (state) | 1. bad luck, ill luck, misfortune, tough luck | an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes. |
| ~ circumstances, luck, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, portion | your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you).; "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" |
| ~ weakness | the condition of being financially weak.; "the weakness of the dollar against the yen" |
| ~ adversity, hard knocks, hardship | a state of misfortune or affliction.; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" |
| ~ gutter, sewer, toilet | misfortune resulting in lost effort or money.; "his career was in the gutter"; "all that work went down the sewer"; "pensions are in the toilet" |
| ~ hard cheese | bad luck. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 2. bad luck, mischance, mishap | an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate.; "if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all" |
| ~ fortune, chance, hazard, luck | an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another.; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance" |
| n. (event) | 3. bad luck, misfortune | unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event. |
| ~ trouble | an event causing distress or pain.; "what is the trouble?"; "heart trouble" |
| ~ pity, shame | an unfortunate development.; "it's a pity he couldn't do it" |
| ~ misadventure, mischance, mishap | an instance of misfortune. |
| ~ calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, cataclysm, disaster | an event resulting in great loss and misfortune.; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" |
| ~ adversity | a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event.; "a period marked by adversities" |
| ~ hardship | something that causes or entails suffering.; "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"; "the many hardships of frontier life" |
| ~ knock | a bad experience.; "the school of hard knocks" |
| pain in the neck | | |
| n. (person) | 1. nuisance, pain, pain in the neck | a bothersome annoying person.; "that kid is a terrible pain" |
| ~ disagreeable person, unpleasant person | a person who is not pleasant or agreeable. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck | something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness.; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction" |
| ~ negative stimulus | a stimulus with undesirable consequences. |
| ~ nuisance | (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive. |
| ~ irritant, thorn | something that causes irritation and annoyance.; "he's a thorn in my flesh" |
| ~ plague | an annoyance.; "those children are a damn plague" |
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