adverse circumstances adversity affliction aggravation annoyance blight broken fortune bummer care cross curse difficulty distress downer embarrassment genteel poverty hard knocks hard life hard lot hard pinch hardcase hardship impecuniosity impecuniousness insolvency irritation light purse narrow means plight poorness poverty predicament pressure rigor sea of troubles slender means straitened circumstances straits stress stress of life tight squeeze trial tribulation trouble troubles unprosperousness vale of tears vicissitude voluntary poverty vows of poverty