Sentence examples similar to a thorn in my guy from inspiring English sources

Betz referred to her as "a good friend and a thorn in my side".

"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.

The injury from Mr. Bremer's bullet became a "thorn in my flesh," Mr. Wallace later said, and the truncated campaign became a thorn in his psyche.

"I love my sister very much, but 'Fear of Flying' has been a thorn in my flesh for thirty-five years".

"If I would retire tomorrow, it would not be a thorn in my side," he said.

But it's been a thorn in my side since I first heard about it.

"I found five or six misspellings that aren't egregious but are a thorn in my side".

"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.