Distress Phrases

Phrases

• A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
• A world of pain
• Asking for trouble
• At the end of your rope
• At the end of your tether
• Borrow trouble
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Come to grief
• Cried my eyes out
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Double trouble
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Doubled up in pain
• Drown the pain
• Feeling no pain
• Good grief
• Here comes trouble
• I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift song)
• In trouble
• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon (Woody Allen line)
• Line is full of misery and lonliness and it's over much too soon (Woody Allen line)
• Long suffering
• Looking for trouble
• Make trouble
• Man Of Constant Sorrow (Bob Dylan song)
• Mayday mayday
• Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
• Misery loves company
• Misery memoire
• More in sorrow than in anger
• No pain, no gain
• Nose for trouble
• On pain of death
• One for sorrow (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
• Pain barrier
• Pain in the arse
• Pain in the bum
• Pain in the butt
• Pain in the neck
• Parting is such sweet sorrow
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Separation anxiety
• Stir up trouble
• Suffering succotash
• 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
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• Woe is me