bother vs pain in the neck

bother

noun
  • Trouble, inconvenience. 

  • Fuss, ado. 

intj
  • A mild expression of annoyance. 

verb
  • To do something which is of negligible inconvenience. 

  • To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. 

  • To annoy, to disturb, to irritate. 

pain in the neck

noun
  • Someone or something which is annoying, irritating or inconvenient. 

How often have the words bother and pain in the neck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )