<span class="searchmatch">thorn</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">side</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">thorns</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">side</span>) (idiomatic) A persistent annoyance. 1995, “The Sword of Kahless”, <span class="searchmatch">in</span> Star Trek: Deep Space Nine...
<span class="searchmatch">thorns</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">side</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">thorn</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">side</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">ɪn</span> (ə)t oːx/ doorn <span class="searchmatch">in</span> het oog m (plural doornen <span class="searchmatch">in</span> het oog, diminutive doorntje <span class="searchmatch">in</span> het oog n) (figuratively) <span class="searchmatch">thorn</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> the flesh, <span class="searchmatch">thorn</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> side...
pje/ épine au pied f (usually uncountable, plural épines au pied) (figuratively) <span class="searchmatch">thorn</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> the flesh, <span class="searchmatch">thorn</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">side</span> retirer une épine du pied...
Dorn im Auge m (mixed or strong, genitive Dorns im Auge or Dornes im Auge, plural Dornen im Auge or Dörner im Auge) (idiomatic) <span class="searchmatch">thorn</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">side</span>...
in de pels, diminutive luisje in de pels n) gadfly (consistent critic) <span class="searchmatch">thorn</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">side</span> (persistent annoyance) Near-synonym: doorn <span class="searchmatch">in</span> het oog...
thorn in one's <span class="searchmatch">side</span> <span class="searchmatch">thorn</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">side</span> <span class="searchmatch">thorn</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> the flesh thornless thornlet thornlike thornproof thorntail Thornton <span class="searchmatch">thorn</span> tree <span class="searchmatch">thorn</span>-tree thornveld...
Western Europe[1], page 323: Even individual castles could be a <span class="searchmatch">thorn</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> the flesh of a powerful kingdom. <span class="searchmatch">thorn</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> one's <span class="searchmatch">side</span> persistent difficulty...
a thorn in <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">side</span> [with dla (+ genitive)], [with dative], [with genitive ‘forw whom/whose <span class="searchmatch">side</span>’] Synonym: drażnić być solą w oku <span class="searchmatch">in</span> Wielki słownik...
black stump <span class="searchmatch">thorn</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">side</span> time is on one's <span class="searchmatch">side</span> trackside upper <span class="searchmatch">side</span> wake up on the wrong <span class="searchmatch">side</span> of bed walk on the wild <span class="searchmatch">side</span> wrong <span class="searchmatch">side</span> of the tracks...