dull, quasi-rheumatic pains of varying degree in the limbs during childhood and adolescence, often popularly associated with the process of growing.
2.
emotional difficulties experienced during adolescence and preadulthood.
3.
difficulties attending any new project or any rapid development of an existing project:
a city plagued with growing pains.
Origin
1800-10
Examples from the web for growing pains
But these successes have been accompanied by growing pains.
He's going to have growing pains, literally and figuratively.
growing pains may be forgiven in emerging democracies.
After going through its share of growing pains, it now operates with clockwork efficiency.
Both arrangements make it difficult to come up with bold cures for the suburbs' growing pains.
See this as growing pains to become a real democracy.
Its only problem seems to be growing pains, as the company's network went down a couple of times in the last two months.
Suburban and ex-urban communities are experiencing growing pains as well.
Not surprisingly, the online brokerage industry is experiencing growing pains.
Not surprisingly the on-line brokerage industry is experiencing growing pains.
British Dictionary definitions for growing pains
growing pains
plural noun
1.
pains in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children during a period of unusually rapid growth
2.
difficulties besetting a new enterprise in its early stages
growing pains in Medicine
growing painspl.n. Pains in the limbs and joints of children or adolescents, frequently occurring at night and often attributed to rapid growth but arising from various unrelated causes.
Idioms and Phrases with growing pains
growing pains
Problems that arise in beginning or enlarging an enterprise, as in The company is undergoing growing pains but should be viable by next year. This expression, which dates from the late 1800s, originally referred to the joint and limb aches experienced by youngsters who are growing rapidly. By about 1900 it was being used figuratively.