Pain in the neck: Annoying or bothersome.

Like pulling teeth: Very difficult and tedious.

To get something squared away: To tie up loose ends. To solve the various smaller problems of a larger troublesome situation.

To iron something out: To fix a problem, to correct a mistake in aprocess.

To bite the bullet: To accept a disagreeable solution for adifficult situation.

To flog a dead horse: To do something that has no hope of succeeding or bringing about the desired result. Note that this idiom is often used with “beat” instead of “flog.”

The same old story: The same explanation for a situation givenover and over again.

To give someone the runaround: To avoid answering a question or giving someone help by treating them evasively or by misleading them.

To be in someone’s shoes: To be in someone else’s position orsituation.

To pull up: To access a file or other information on a computer.

To have been down that road before: To have experienced or tried something before, especially if it was not helpful orpleasant.

To call the shots: To make the important decisions.

At your wit’s end: Completely frustrated and confused abouthow to solve a problem.

To get on someone’s case: To aggressively bother or nag someone about something.

To be spinning your wheels: To be putting forth an effort that is having no useful effect. To be working in vain.

To have a good mind to do something: To be inclined to do something. To have a strong desire to do something.

To feed someone a line: To tell someone something that is not genuine or truthful. To use a trite or clichéd expression instead of the truth.

To be beyond someone: To be impossible to understand, to becompletely unbelievable.

To have your hands tied: To be unable to do anything to help asituation.

To be out of your mind: To be crazy,to be unreasonable or irrational. This expression is very often used in response to someone who proposes something completely unreasonable.

To take something out on someone: To direct anger or frustration about something at someone who is not responsible for it.

To have had it with something or someone: To be fed up with. To not be able to handle any more of a situation or person.

For crying out loud . . .: This expresses complete frustration about a situation.