a pain in the neck

This page is about the idiom a pain in the neck

INFORMAL

Meaning

You can say someone is a pain in the neck if they annoy you, or something is a pain in the neck if you don't like doing it.

Lenny's being a pain in the neck today. He keeps interrupting me while I'm trying to work.
It's a real pain in the neck when you're trying to get some sleep on the train and people keep shouting into their mobile phones all around you.

Mark's being a pain in the neck this morning, so

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