Vocabulary

四苦八苦

being in dire distress; being hard put to it; being hard pressed (for money)

noun suru-verb vi
freq #34

Example sentences

We almost broke our necks trying to meet the quota.

I had a very hard time writing the paper.

You look like you're having a lot of trouble setting up that web page. Want some help?

When I started using a computer I was taken in by Norton's CPU-hungry software and had a lot of trouble.