a pain in the neck

/ɐ pˈeɪn ɪnðə nˈɛk/

a pain in the neck

a person or thing that causes one great annoyance or a lot of difficulty

synonyms : annoyance

a bothersome annoying person

synonyms : nuisance

Examples

1. Spotify, Facebook, and YouTube represented a pain in the neck for MySpace.

2. So instead of dipping this in hot water and manually peeling the feathers off, which would be a pain in the neck.

3. Because it's a pain in the neck to be a public company.

4. Most time, it's a pain in the neck.