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Noun Concept
Categories: English proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Biblical phrases
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fly in the ointment
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An inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something WordNet 3.0
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An inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In English, the phrase fly in the ointment is an idiomatic expression for a drawback, especially one that was not at first apparent, for example: "We had a cookstove, beans, and plates; the fly in the ointment was the lack of a can opener." Wikipedia
An English-language idiomatic expression Wikipedia Disambiguation
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troublesomeness
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fly in the ointment
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fly in the ointment
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Fly in the ointment

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