(exp,n) misery
distress
(exp) After pleasure comes pain
(exp) to have one's labor appreciated (labour)
(exp) to relieve a person's pain
(exp) (id) No cross, no crown
(exp) good medicine tastes bitter
the most helpful advice may be difficult to listen to
(exp) danger past, God forgotten
(exp) to become a prostitute (sink into a brothel)
(exp) one cannot have pain without pleasure, and one cannot have pleasure without pain
(exp,adj-na) sour (expression, as if having consumed a bitter bug)
(exp) spare no effort while you are young
heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age
