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troubleshart 

When you troubleshoot a seemingly simple issue and end up making it worse, requiring extensive cleanup.
Hey, Joe. Please take a look at this issue and try not to troubleshart it again.

Trouble puff 

A trouble puff is a testicle. They cause the male species to make a large variety of troublesome decisions.
That damn goat breaks out of his pen everyday because his trouble puffs tell him he’s got places to be.
Trouble puff by Troublepuffs November 23, 2020

big trouble in little china 

Greatest b-movie ever made. Was ahead of it's time when released, and has since become a cult classic.
Big Trouble In Little China is such an awesome flick.

troolean 

A slang term to describe Microsoft's true/false/error scheme used in many places in the Win32 API. It's used to describe when something has 3 states, as compared to Boolean, which has two states (usually true or false).
The GetMessage API is an interesting example of the bizarre Microsoft Troolean (as opposed to traditional, Boolean) logic. GetMessage is defined to return a BOOL, but the documentation specifies three types of returns, non-zero, zero and -1. I am not making it up! Here's an excerpt from the help file:

* If the function retrieves a message other than WM_QUIT, the return value is nonzero.

* If the function retrieves the WM_QUIT message, the return value is zero.

* If there is an error, the return value is -1.

Excerpt from Reliable Software, LLC
troolean by ShinSan August 20, 2010

Trouble and Strife 

Bloke 1: Fancy another pint mate?
Bloke 2: Cheers, but I gotta get back to the old trouble and strife before midnight or lese she'll blow!

somebody else's trouble 

Steve used to say it ain't hard to get along with somebody else's trouble, as long as fate is busting someone else's bubble, you'll be just fine.
It ain't hard to get along with somebody else's trouble.