headache department

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
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • give (one) trouble
  • give trouble
  • never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you
  • men are blind in their own cause
  • (something) is the last straw
  • (something) is the straw that broke the camel's back
  • camel
  • hill to die on
  • It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back
  • honeymoon period
References in periodicals archive
After approval from the ethics committee of Gazi University, this retrospective study was conducted in Algology and Headache departments between 2012 and 2014 in migraine without aura patients.