teething troubles

plural noun

the difficulties or problems that arise during the initial stages of a project, enterprise, etc

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Johnny Bold, by the help either of Mr. Rerechild or else by that of his coral and carrot-juice, got through his teething troubles.

This may account for the statement in another journal that "the new Administration is going through teething troubles."

Suppose that several members of a litter were all bright blue, and that these suffered from no teething troubles.

The chief bar to the increase in numbers of this species appears to be the teething troubles to which the whelps are liable.

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