Trouble Phrases

Phrases

• A lot of fuss about nothing
• A problem shared is a problem halved
• A recipe for disaster
• A world of pain
• Act up
• Adversity makes strange bedfellows
• Agent provocateur
• And adversity makes strange bedfellows
• Apologize for any inconvenience
• Asking for trouble
• Attention deficit disorder
• Author of your own misfortune
• Away go troubles down the drain (Roto-Rooter advertising slogan)
• Bad news
• Borrow trouble
• Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel album and song)
• Catch hell
• Cause for concern
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Clear and present danger
• Come to grief
• Conflict of interest
• Conflict resolution
• Courting disaster
• Danger, Will Robinson (A catchphrase from The Robot In Lost In Space)
• Disaster capitalism
• Do not meet your troubles halfway
• Don't Worry Baby (Beach Boys song)
• Don't kick a man when he's down
• Don't mess with Texas
• Don't mess with my head
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Don't worry, be happy
• Double trouble
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Doubled up in pain
• Drown the pain
• Eating disorder
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Feeling no pain
• First responder (the member of the emergency services to arrive at a disaster)
• Flirting with disaster
• For the high jump
• Frightful mess
• Fuss pot
• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains (Thomas Carlyle quotation)
• Get into a scrape
• Get into deep water
• Get into hot water
• Going concern
• Good grief
• Growing pains
• Have a cross to bear
• He is his own worst enemy
• Here comes trouble
• Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into (A catchphrase from Laurel And Hardy)
• High jinks
• Hot mess
• I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift song)
• If gas pains persist, try Volkswagen (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• In decline
• In deep doo-doo
• In deep shit
• In deep water
• In dire straits
• In hot water

• In the cart
• In the doghouse
• In the shit
• In the soup
• In trouble
• Jumping up and down with annoyance
• Kick up a fuss
• Labour pains
• Last ditch effort
• Looking for trouble
• Make a fuss
• Make trouble
• Mess around
• No fuss, no muss
• No pain, no gain
• Nose for trouble
• Not to worry
• Nothing to worry your pretty little head about
• Old Aches and Pains (Nickname of Luke Appling)
• On pain of death
• On the carpet
• Our entire economy is in danger
• Out of danger
• Pain barrier
• Pain in the arse
• Pain in the bum
• Pain in the butt
• Pain in the neck
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Pour oil on troubled waters
• Raise Cain
• Raise hell
• Raise the roof
• Relieves gas pains (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Seasonal affected disorder
• Separation anxiety
• Stir up trouble
• Stranger danger
• Strike out swinging (A baseball expression meaning to fail while giving it your best effort)
• The Prince of Pain (Nickname of comedian Richard Lewis)
• The brink of disaster
• The fat is in the fire
• The pros from dover (American slang term for outside consultants who are brought into a business to troubleshoot)
• This is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here (A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen)
• Trial and error
• Trial and tribulation
• Trial by television
• Trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang for wife)
• Trouble in Paradise
• Trouble with a capital T
• Tummy trouble
• Under the gun
• Up a gum tree
• Up shit creek without a paddle
• Up to your neck in trouble
• Voice your concern
• War weary (tired of conflict)
• What's all the fuss about?
• What's bugging you?
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• When you are in a hole, stop digging
• White elephant
• Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?
• Woe is me
• Women's troubles
• Worry wart
• Yellow peril

Related

• Asking for trouble
• Borrow trouble
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Double trouble
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Here comes trouble
• I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift song)
• In trouble
• Looking for trouble
• Make trouble
• Nose for trouble
• Stir up trouble
• 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)