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The country is changing at a faster pace than at any time since the brutal birth pangs of the Industrial Revolution.
I think some of the difficulties of the past few years have been the birth pangs of a different kind of working life.
The stadium, despite horrendous birth pangs, has emerged as one of the most splendid in the world.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Experiencing difficulties
be
be (caught) between a rock and a hard placeidiom
be climbing the wallsidiom
be for the high jumpidiom
be/come up against a brick wallidiom
flounder
frying pan
fumble
fun
go through a bad/difficult/rough/sticky patchidiom
jungle
leg
on a razor edgeidiom
out of the frying pan into the fireidiom
pickle
pressed
prob
rocky
sticky
strand
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