- rub salt in the wound
- cause it to be worse, aggravate, add insult to injury
If you criticize a student's work in front of the class, you are rubbing salt in the wound.
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rub salt in the wound
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rub salt into the wound — informal phrase to make a bad situation even worse for someone Thesaurus: to make something worsesynonym Main entry: rub * * * rub salt into the (or someone s) wound make a painful experience even more painful for someone … Useful english dictionary
rub salt into the wound — ► rub salt into the wound make a painful experience even more painful. Main Entry: ↑salt … English terms dictionary
rub salt in the wound — to make a difficult situation even worse for someone. Losing was bad enough, having to watch them receiving the trophy just rubbed salt into the wound … New idioms dictionary
rub salt into the wound — to make a difficult situation even worse for someone. Losing was bad enough, having to watch them receiving the trophy just rubbed salt into the wound … New idioms dictionary
rub salt into the wound — place salt on an injury, make a matter worse than it already is … English contemporary dictionary
rub salt into the wound — make a painful experience even more painful. → salt … English new terms dictionary
rub salt in the wound — verb To make an injury feel worse. Syn: add insult to injury, kick someone when they are down … Wiktionary
rub salt into the wound — informal to make a bad situation even worse for someone … English dictionary
rub salt into somebody's wounds — rub ˈsalt into the wound | rub ˈsalt into sb s wounds idiom to make a difficult experience even more difficult for sb Main entry: ↑rubidiom … Useful english dictionary
rub salt in/into someone's wounds — (or rub salt in/into the wound) informal : to make a difficult situation even worse for someone It s bad enough that he beat me, but the way he keeps talking about it is just rubbing salt in the wound. • • • Main Entry: ↑rub rub salt in/into… … Useful english dictionary
