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struggle bus

struggle bus noun: a difficult situation.

Noun

struggle bus (plural struggle buses)

  1. (slang) A difficult situation.
    • riding/driving the struggle bus
    • to be on the struggle bus

Examples of struggle bus in a sentence

  • “You're not answering me directly—I'm really on the struggle bus about this!” Jane exploded.2012, Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield, Grail Mysterium: An Adventure on The Heights, →ISBN, page 69:
  • Wow, 4%, sweetie you're the captain of the struggle bus.2016, Kate Grosshauser, The Diagnosis of a Break Up, →ISBN, page 50:
  • If low-back pain or sciatica has you constantly riding the struggle bus, you'll definitely want to start incorporating this pose morning, noon, and night.2016, Candace Moore, Namaslay, →ISBN:
  • But if I hadn't been driving the struggle bus, I probably would've derived some strange pleasure from this meeting.2017, Kate Canterbary, Preservation, →ISBN:

Forms of struggle bus

pluralstruggle buses

Questions about struggle bus

What does struggle bus mean?
Struggle bus means a difficult situation.
How do you use struggle bus in a sentence?
“You're not answering me directly—I'm really on the struggle bus about this!” Jane exploded.
What part of speech is struggle bus?
Struggle bus is a noun.
What is the plural of struggle bus?
The plural of struggle bus is struggle buses.

Words near struggle bus in the dictionary

  1. Struesel
  2. strueverite
  3. Struga
  4. Strugari
  5. struggle
  6. struggle bus
  7. struggle buses
  8. struggle kid
  9. struggle kids
  10. struggle meal
  11. struggle meals

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