struggle bus

struggle bus (plural struggle buses)

1. (slang) A difficult situation.
   • 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.

Usually used in a phrase such as "riding the struggle bus", "driving the struggle bus", or "on the struggle bus"