royal pain

a royal pain

Someone or something that is very irritating. "Royal" is used as an intensifier. Of course the client has more demands. Ugh, he is a royal pain. This project has turned into a royal pain—I doubt well get it done by the deadline.
See also: pain, royal

royal pain

Someone or something that causes a large or severe amount of frustration, annoyance, or aggravation. This new computer is proving to be a royal pain. It's been crashing at least once a day since I first started it up! These federal investigators have been royal pains. I know they have a job to do, but I wish they would just let us get on with our work.
See also: pain, royal
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

royal pain

n. someone or something irritating; a severe annoyance. Her questions were a royal pain, but I had to answer them as part of my job.
See also: pain, royal
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • a royal pain
  • give (someone) the royal treatment
  • by half
  • and a half
  • fricking
  • damn sight, a
  • in thunderation?
  • in creation
  • in creation?
References in periodicals archive
ROYAL PAIN Trump with Queen at Windsor in July, 2018
High heelsmay make an outfit, but they can also be a royal pain in the backside.
In Royal Pain, after Noahs grandfather passes away, Noah finds out he was a duke and that his mother is part of the royal family of Evonia.
Some programs handle this scaling behind the scenes; for most others, you have to scale in FFmpeg, which is a royal pain from a time and disk-space perspective.
The 12.30pm kick-off time will have been a royal pain in the butt for the Catalan.
Conservatives taunted him for weeks for allegedly kowtowing to the monarch," Crowley noted in an article titled "Obama's royal pain."
But she's still nudging 90 so it must be a right royal pain in the backside to drag oneself from one's bed and allow oneself to be powdered, preened and put in front of a crowd of waving subjects day after weary day.
It's a royal pain having to be responsible not only for myself (which is required regardless if I was a submissive or a Dominant), but having to be responsible for those who I play with.
Getting the flu, for example, is a royal pain in the rear at any time - but particularly if it lays you out for a week of drinking and dancing.
A royal pain with a red balloon strays from a fair and into an abandoned marionette auditorium where several spooky kooky puppets (called Squickerwonkers) reside.
MY other half works in retail and realises the importance of the old adage, "The customer is always right" - even if customer is a royal pain the butt with more front than the North Wales coast.
If you have a lot of them, it's a royal pain to replace alkaline batteries every year.
Remarkably assured and confident off the pitch, he is a royal pain in the posterior on it, with his unrelenting physicality and combativeness.
This is not easy for me to admit, but there are times when I know I''m a royal pain in the nappy area to him.
Staff and students had no idea that the peafowl hanging around as they unpacked their boxes in their new quarters would become such a royal pain.