n.: strike a bad patch, stress, bottleneck, (financial, etc.) difficulty, trial, trouble, woe, get around/round (to), get over, come through, come up against, when it comes to the crunch (=when the crunch comes), straits, provide against, in (great) straits, under [driven by] the stress of, tide over, make heavy weather of sth., financial difficulties, state or quality of being difficult, trouble or effort that sth involves, struggle, straits [pl] trouble, hassle, involvement, issue, dickens, difficulty, discomfort, drawback, embarrassment, funeral