monkey on one's back (noun) encumbrance: burden
Sinonime: ambiguous,
ancillary, circuitous,
circular, circumlocutory,
collateral,
complicated,
contingent,
crooked,
devious,
discursive,
duplicitous,
erratic, eventual,
implied,
incidental,
long, long way home, long-drawn-out, long-winded, meandering,
oblique,
obscure, out-of-the-way, periphrastic,
rambling,
secondary, serpentine, sidelong,
sinister, sinuous, snaking, sneaking,
sneaky,
subsidiary, tortuous, twisting, underhand,
vagrant,
wandering, winding, zigzag
Antonime: direct,
straight,
straightforward