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The phrase "a thorn in my Pocket" is not correct; it should be "a thorn in my side." You can use it to describe something or someone that causes persistent annoyance or trouble.
Example: "The constant delays in the project have become a thorn in my side."
Alternatives: "a pain in my neck" or "a nuisance in my life."
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Eustacia Cutler gives an account of it in her own, highly emotive autobiography, "A Thorn in My Pocket," which has all the makings of a more lurid Lifetime movie and is perhaps wisely left out of the HBO film.
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"The racetrack has been a thorn in my side for 37 years," she said.
"The D.C. Circuit is a thorn in my saddle," John Cornyn, of Texas, told me.
"I love my sister very much, but 'Fear of Flying' has been a thorn in my flesh for thirty-five years".
"I found five or six misspellings that aren't egregious but are a thorn in my side".
But it's been a thorn in my side since I first heard about it.
"Transaction fees are a thorn in my side; monitoring fees are a knife in my head," one executive at a pension fund moaned at a conference last year.
In his final annual report in 1983, he wrote: "The Ripper is a thorn in my career.
Now there was a man who was a thorn in my side for, thankfully, only a few years.
"Corcoran and those other ones who come over here from Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope are a thorn in my side, but I still have the best houses," she said.
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