bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
pain; agony; suffering; distress; torment
trouble (I have put you through); (your) hard work; thank you (for your hard work); I appreciate your efforts
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
(mental) agony; anguish; suffering; distress
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
nonsensical; unreasonable; awfully; extremely; disorder; confusion
complaint; troubles; objection; grievance
pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)
thank you (for your hard work); I appreciate your efforts
suffering; distress; hardship; trial
bitterness; distress; pain; bitterness and astringency
pains; hard work; effort; trouble; labour; labor
faint, ironic or bittersweet smile
I appreciate your efforts
difficult situation; adverse circumstances; predicament; trouble; dilemma; distress
penance; austerities; mortification; difficult work; strenuous task
being in dire distress; being hard put to it; being hard pressed (for money); the four and eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)
to give candid advice; to give harsh but honest advice; to admonish
candid advice; frank advice; honest opinion; exhortation; harsh but honest advice
hard fighting; hard struggle; fighting against heavy odds
to be bothered (by something); to suffer
last resort; desperate measure taken under the pressure of necessity
person who has been through a lot; worldly-wise person; one who has seen it all
racking one's brains; worrying oneself; being anxious
ninja throwing knives; medieval farming tool for digging, prying, etc.
overanxiety; needless worry
labor; labour; toil; hardship
hard fight; difficult struggle
to share (life's) joys and sorrows (with); to share the good and the bad (with); to stick together through thick and thin
trial and tribulation; hardships; privations; difficulties
pleasure and pain; joys and sorrows
to be in difficulties; to be in trouble; to be in a difficult situation
mental anguish; mental distress
nervous temperament; worry habit; pessimistic nature; pessimism
self-supporting student; working student
distress; anguish; mental suffering
toil; drudgery; penal servitude; imprisonment (with hard labour)
unremitting effort; dogged perseverance; unswerving loyalty
bitter liquid; (fig.) bitter experience
hardships of life (esp. due to lack of money); life's struggles
working one's way through school; earning one's own school fees; studying under adversity; studying in harsh economic circumstances
hardships of poverty; serious poverty
best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
world of suffering; life of prostitution
hellish pain; suffering; distress; agony
hardship; suffering; privation; adversity
hurting oneself (to trick an adversary)
triple handicap (esp. blindness, deafness and mutism)
to have a bitter experience
the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)
laborious composition; struggling to compose a poem
to worry (about); to be terribly worried (about); to be very concerned (about); to be sick with worry
terrible pain; terrible hardship; terrible suffering
trouble; distress; sorrow
suffering pain; experiencing hardship
double torture; double pain; double hardship; double whammy
to drink a bitter cup; to have a bitter experience; to suffer a defeat
the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains; a series of disasters
bitter cup; bitter experience; bitter defeat; ordeal
account of the hardships one has encountered
being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships
inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering); death pains; agony of death
toil and moil; working assiduously for; tireless hard work; painstaking labor (labour)
stratagem for causing a rift in the enemy camp by using a seditious plot
being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships; making a strenuous effort
after pleasure comes pain; there is no pleasure without pain; there is no rose without a thorn; take the good with the bad
sweetness and bitterness; joys and sorrows
crumpled; wrinkled; crinkled; creased
the pain of separation from loved ones
sea of suffering; human realm
trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles
strenuous pursuit of learning under difficulties
the pain of not getting what one seeks
trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles
four-fold hardship; quadruple whammy
no pain, no gain; no cross, no crown
the pain of meeting people one dislikes
Suffering, Source of Suffering Desire, The Cessation of Suffering, The Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering (The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism)
bitter tea; low-quality tea
to drink a bitter cup; to have a bitter experience; to suffer a defeat
jostling; being jostled; being mobbed; crumpling
all things are causes of sufferings
Arduous March; North Korean famine of the late 1990s
worrying oneself (about); being anxious (about); fidgeting (about)
suffering caused by the cold
Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambusoides); giant timber bamboo; madake; Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
wormwood (Artemisia absinthium); absinthe
being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships; making a strenuous effort
to go through all sorts of hardships
magnesia; magnesium oxide
coldest time of the year; bitter suffering
pain caused by the five skandhas
filled with numerous sufferings
story of one's struggles; hardship story
grievance machinery; complaints department
spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age
spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age
bitter principle; bitter-tasting substance
patripassianism (theology)
putting up a good fight against some odds
a Buddha or Bodhisattva taking away suffering and conferring peace
one cannot have pleasure without pain; no pain, no gain
there's no pain without pleasure, and there's no pleasure without pain
harm zone; people who will suffer the negative effects of new public facilities, infrastructure, etc. (e.g. pollution)
cold-suffering bird; kankuchō; imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning comes; (lazy) person who is poor at practicing asceticism; person unlikely to reach satori
hardships and joys; tasting the sweets and bitters of life; being well-versed in the ways of the world (having seen much of life)
owl (esp. the Ural owl, Strix uralensis)
numerous sufferings; suffering of many people
numerous sufferings; various kinds of suffering