pain point
n.— «Quebec small businesses have the second-highest labor “pain points.”…On a national basis, the survey found 70 per cent of small businesses had serious problems with labor laws and regulations.» —“Manitoba businesses head list assailing labor law, survey finds” Toronto Star (Canada) Nov. 20, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A physician in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, shares some of the vocabulary of his patients from Appalachia. There, a misery is anything painful, such as a misery in my jaw if they have a painful tooth or a misery in my back if they have lumbar pain...
“What has a head like a cat, feet like a cat, a tail like a cat, but isn’t a cat?” Answer: a kitten! A 1948 children’s joke book has lots of these to share with kids. Plus: an easy explanation for the difference between...