"pit of misery" is a correct and usable term in written English.
It is often used to describe a situation that is very unpleasant, or where someone is feeling very unhappy. For example: "Stuck in a pit of misery, he felt like he would never be able to make things right."
The Rangers wasted little time in making the Senators' pit of misery a little deeper.
Hensher is too smart to think he's shocking us by revealing that a look beneath the surface of the most apparently civilized place will often uncover a teeming snake pit of misery and madness.
I have done the patches, which didn't work, and the Champix (a pill that gradually makes you feel sick as you smoke, until you can no longer do so) which did work, at least temporarily, though the nurse failed to notice my history of depression and I spent two weeks in such an awful pit of misery that I thought I would never smile again.
The one with the bottomless pit of misery at the end?
Like all good things – at least, all things that start out good but finish in a toxic pit of misery – most relationships come to an end.
Presumably the idea is that looking at them makes you feel slightly better about yourself the next morning as you wallow in a clammy, Jager-induced pit of misery.
Yarmouk and other camps in Syria – the refugees from Raml camp north of Homs are now surviving in surrounding villages – were created, like the other great pits of misery in the Arab world, for the Palestinians who were driven from their homes in what was to become Israel.
Private medical foundations have played a huge part in providing anti-retroviral drugs to stem the plague of AIDS, while state-run hospitals are often pits of misery and incompetence.The younger generation of Kenyans more outward-looking, better educated, a bit less tribal-minded, less dependent on the patronage of state and local "big men"—seems sharply aware of all this.
"Foxtrot (one of four Manus compounds) was a pit of human misery," Mr Blackwell recalls.
Like pit-of-my-stomach anxious".
Anecdotes of misery abound.
