Anguish Phrases

Phrases

• A world of pain
• Agony aunt
• Agony column
• Agony uncle
• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt (Charles M. Schulz quotation)
• Asking for trouble
• Borrow trouble
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (Culture Club song)
• Don't cry before you're hurt
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Don't upset the apple-cart
• Double trouble
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Doubled up in pain

• Drown the pain
• Enhanced interrogation techniques (euphemism for torture)
• Feeling no pain
• Here comes trouble
• Hurt feelings
• Hurt pride
• I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift song)
• In trouble
• It's a Heartache (Bonnie Tyler song)
• It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt
• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon (Woody Allen line)
• Long suffering
• Looking for trouble
• Make trouble
• No pain, no gain

• Nose for trouble
• On pain of death
• Pain barrier
• Pain in the arse
• Pain in the bum
• Pain in the butt
• Pain in the neck
• Pile on the agony
• Prolong the agony
• Put the hurt on
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
• Stir up trouble
• Suffering succotash
• The Agony and The Ecstasy (Charlton Heston movie)
• The Big Hurt (Nickname of Frank Thomas)

• The Elephant Man (John Hurt / Anthony Hopkins / David Lynch movie)
• The Prince of Pain (Nickname of comedian Richard Lewis)
• This is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here (A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen)
• Trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang for wife)
• Trouble in Paradise
• Trouble with a capital T
• Tummy trouble
• Up to your neck in trouble
• Upset the applecart
• What you don't know can't hurt you
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• Woe is me
• You only hurt the one you love