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Growing pains

noun

Pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth.

Emotional distress arising during adolescence.

Problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages).

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... long years of its growth and success the Senate Hotel had known the usual growing pains. Starting with walnut and red plush it had, in its adolescence, broken out all over into brass beds and birds'-eye maple. This, in turn, had vanished before mahogany veneer and brocade. Hardly had the white scratches on these ruddy surfaces been doctored by ...

— Cheerful--By Request • Edna Ferber