headache
headache
Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating. This filing project is such a headache—I can't find a darn thing I'm looking for!
splitting headache
A very intense, painful headache, i.e., one that makes one's head feel as though it is splitting apart. We were up all night drinking cheap wine, and I woke up the next morning with a splitting headache. I've had this splitting headache for nearly four hours, and nothing I do seems to help.
See also: headache, splitting
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
splitting headache
Fig. a severe headache, as if one's head were splitting open. I'm sorry, I can't. I have a splitting headache. Maybe Fred will play bridge with you. This splitting headache has been going on for hours.
See also: headache, splitting
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
headache
1. n. an annoying person or thing. Cars can be such a headache.
2. n. liquor. Pour me some more of that headache, will you?
headache department
1. n. a central source of unnecessary problems; a person who habitually causes problems. Here’s another memo from the headache department.
2. and headache house n. a liquor store or department. I stopped in at the headache house for some supplies.
See also: department, headache
headache house
verbSee headache department
See also: headache, house
headache man
n. a male law enforcement agent. The headache man was here to see you, Ernie.
See also: headache, man
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- get (someone or something) out of (one's) mind
- get out of mind
- be a pain in the neck
- carp
- carp about
- carp about (someone or something)
- I'm like you
- at (one's) heels
- at someone's heels
- at your heels