三さん重じゅう苦く

noun

triple handicap; triple affliction

Refers to a person having three severe disabilities, classically blindness, deafness, and mutism, but can be used more broadly for any three simultaneous hardships.

• ヘレン・ケラーは三さん重じゅう苦くを乗のり越こえたことで知しられている。