trouble in paradise
An unexpected problem in a supposedly positive situation, especially in a marital or romantic relationship.
My wife wasn't in the best of moods on our honeymoon last week. ― Trouble in paradise?
trouble
UK /ˈtɹʌb.əl/ US /ˈtɹab.əl/
noun 5verb 5
Definitions
noun
1
A distressing or dangerous situation.
He was in trouble when the rain started.
2
A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
The trouble was a leaking brake line.
The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.
3
A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
’Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in So shame on me no-ow
4
The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor An inner trouble I behold, A spectral doubt which makes me cold, That I shall be thy mate no more, […]
5
Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
Your trouble is that you quit too readily.
The trouble with that suggestion is that we lack the funds to put it in motion.
verb
1
To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water:
God looking forth will trouble all his Hoſt
2
To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
What she said about narcissism is troubling me.
Now is my soule troubled, and what shall I say? Father, saue me from this houre, but for this cause came I vnto this houre.
3
In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
4
To physically afflict.
My bad knee is troubling me.
5
To take pains (to do something); to bother.
I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.
« The hut’s not very tidy, if you don’t mind, » he said. « I cleared it what I could. » / « But I didn’t want you to trouble! » she said.
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