דָּא עָקָא ש...

ביטוי (אנגלית)

That is the trouble/ there is a hitch somewhere

הגדרה (אנגלית)

But the problem is that..., the trouble is that... (In Aramaic דָּא means 'this,' עָקָא means 'trouble').

("...It is a conspiracy of evildoers, and a conspiracy of evildoers is not from the count. Rabbi Yochanan said: 'This is the trouble'" - Sanhedrin 26a, and likewise: "Most of the thieves in Jerusalem are their handiwork. And if the authorities want, they can easily catch them, but this is the trouble, that they do not always want" - Y. Burla / Supplements, 174, and likewise: "This is the trouble, my strength, this is the trouble. You only did it before, for the sake of glory" - H. Hazaz / Early Generations, 20, and likewise: "But this is the trouble, that when the time comes to weigh each of their suspicions... cruel reality comes and strikes him in the face" - H. Beer / To the Place Where the Spirit Goes, 194).