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Definition

thorn in your flesh/side

a person or thing that repeatedly annoys you or causes you pain
A relentless campaigner, he was a thorn in the government's side for a number of years.

(Definition of thorn in your flesh/side from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

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