pain in the ass, you

pain in the ass, you
   ‘“I know what I’m going to giye you, you pain in the ass,” said David to his brother. “A bust in the mouth.”’ This passage in Moviola, by Garson Kanin, illustrates the use of this insulting expression, which occurs rather more frequently in the USA than in Britain.
   The same novel has another example of its use, where its force is softened by the addition of mock insults: ‘He turned to the soundman. “And what about you, you pain in the ass, you pest, you useless appendage, you scourge of my life?”’
   A milder form of this expression is ‘pain in the neck’, but although people might say to one another: ‘You’re a pain in the neck,’ ‘you pain in the neck’ does not seem to be used.

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