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bone in the throat
vs
pain in the butt
bone in the throat
noun
A source of continuing annoyance; a hindrance.
pain in the butt
noun
A nuisance; a source of trouble or annoyance.
How often have the words
bone in the throat
and
pain in the butt
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)