| pickle(noun, trouble, difficulty, want, drag) |
| pinch(noun, trouble, difficulty, want, drag) |
| poverty(noun, trouble, difficulty, distress, want) |
| privation(noun, trouble, difficulty, want, drag) |
| rigor(noun, trouble, difficulty, want, drag) |
| rotten luck(noun, expression, trouble, difficulty, distress) |
| scrape(noun, trouble, difficulty, want, drag) |
| straits(noun, trouble, difficulty, distress, want) |
| throe(noun, trouble, drag, hardship, jam) |
| tough break(noun, expression, trouble, difficulty, distress) |
| tough luck(noun, expression, trouble, difficulty, distress) |
| unholy mess(noun, expression, trouble, difficulty, distress) |
| vicissitude(noun, trouble, difficulty, want, drag) |
| want(noun, trouble, difficulty, drag, hardship) |
| abjection(distress, plight, impoverishment) |
| adversity(noun, trouble, difficulty, hardship, misfortune) |
| aridity(distress, plight, impoverishment) |
| danger(noun, difficulty, misfortune, rigor) |
| desperate straits(expression, distress, plight, impoverishment) |
| dire straits(expression, distress, plight, impoverishment) |