えらい目;偉い目 | [えらいめ, eraime] (exp) terrible time; hard time; bad day [Add to Longdo] |
一苦労 | [ひとくろう, hitokurou] (n, vs) a hard time; pains [Add to Longdo] |
時化る(ateji) | [しける, shikeru] (v1, vi) (1) (uk) to be stormy or choppy (sea); (2) (uk) to go through hard times; to be broke; (3) (uk) to be gloomy; to be glum [Add to Longdo] |
手こずる;手古摺る;手子摺る;梃子摺る;梃摺る | [てこずる, tekozuru] (v5r) (uk) to have much trouble; to have a hard time; to not know how to handle [Add to Longdo] |
辛い目に会う;つらい目にあう;辛い目にあう;辛い目に合う;辛い目に遭う | [つらいめにあう, tsuraimeniau] (exp, v5u) to have a hard time of it [Add to Longdo] |
痩せても枯れても;やせても枯れても | [やせてもかれても, yasetemokaretemo] (exp) even though one has fallen on hard times; however down on one's luck one may be [Add to Longdo] |
糟糠の妻 | [そうこうのつま, soukounotsuma] (exp) one's devoted wife; wife who has followed one through hard times; wife married in poverty [Add to Longdo] |
不景気 | [ふけいき, fukeiki] (adj-na, n) business recession; hard times; depression; gloom; sullenness; cheerlessness; (P) [Add to Longdo] |
憂き目を見る | [うきめをみる, ukimewomiru] (exp, v1) to have a hard time of it; to have a bitter experience [Add to Longdo] |