Usually means: Difficult, unstable situations or periods.
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  1. troubled waters: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. troubled waters: Merriam-Webster
  3. troubled waters: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. troubled waters: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. troubled waters: Dictionary.com
  6. Troubled Waters (Victor Crone song), Troubled Waters: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. troubled waters: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (troubled waters)

noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see troubled, water.; water that is stirred up with high waves, chaotic currents, etc., and therefore difficult to navigate.
noun:  (figurative) Difficulties, chaos, tribulations, or other confusing and problematic aspects of a situation.

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