growing pains

[growing pains] {n.}

1. Pains in children's legs supposed to be caused by changes in their bodies and feelings as they grow.

* /The little girl's legs hurt, and her mother told her she had growing pains./

2. {informal} Troubles when something new is beginning or growing.

* /The factory has growing pains./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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