struggle bus

English

Noun

struggle bus (plural struggle buses)

  1. (slang) A difficult situation.
    riding/driving the struggle bus
    to be on the struggle bus
    • 2012, Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield, Grail Mysterium: An Adventure on The Heights, →ISBN, page 69:
      “You're not answering me directly—I'm really on the struggle bus about this!” Jane exploded.
    • 2016, Kate Grosshauser, The Diagnosis of a Break Up, →ISBN, page 50:
      Wow, 4%, sweetie you're the captain of the struggle bus.
    • 2016, Candace Moore, Namaslay, →ISBN:
      If low-back pain or sciatica has you constantly riding the struggle bus, you'll definitely want to start incorporating this pose morning, noon, and night.
    • 2017, Kate Canterbary, Preservation, →ISBN:
      But if I hadn't been driving the struggle bus, I probably would've derived some strange pleasure from this meeting. Sam and Matt were yelling at each other about structure versus style.
    • 2025 June 13, Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, “Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automation”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      Well, Casey, let’s talk about the other big tech news this week, which is also about a large technology company that is on the AI struggle bus.
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