make someone feel guilty

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• lay a guilt trip on someone — phrase to make someone feel guilty about something Thesaurus: to make someone feel ashamed or embarrassedsynonym Main entry: guilt trip …   Useful english dictionary

• prick someone's conscience — prick (someone s) conscience to make someone feel guilty. Seeing pictures of starving children pricks my conscience, but I rarely give money to charity …   New idioms dictionary

• lay something on someone — 1. tv. to present a plan or an idea to someone. □ Here is this century’s greatest idea. Let me lay it on you. □ I’m going to lay a great idea on you. 2. tv. to attempt to make someone feel guilty about something. □ Don’t lay that stuff on me.… …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• lay a guilt trip on someone — to make someone feel guilty about something …   English dictionary

• make — 1 verb past tense and past participle made, PRODUCE STH 1 (T) to produce something by working: I m going to make a cake for Sam s birthday. | Did you make that dress yourself? | a car made in Japan | They re making a documentary about the Civil… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• make — I [[t]me͟ɪk[/t]] CARRYING OUT AN ACTION ♦ makes, making, made (Make is used in a large number of expressions which are explained under other words in this dictionary. For example, the expression to make sense is explained at sense .) 1) VERB You… …   English dictionary

• feel — /feel/, v., felt, feeling, n. v.t. 1. to perceive or examine by touch. 2. to have a sensation of (something), other than by sight, hearing, taste, or smell: to feel a toothache. 3. to find or pursue (one s way) by touching, groping, or cautious… …   Universalium

• ease someone's mind — ease someone’s conscience/mind/ phrase to make someone feel less guilty worried Thesaurus: to make someone less nervous or upsetsynonym Main entry: ease * * * alleviate someone s anxiety …   Useful english dictionary

• ease someone's conscience — ease someone’s conscience/mind/ phrase to make someone feel less guilty worried Thesaurus: to make someone less nervous or upsetsynonym Main entry: ease …   Useful english dictionary

• lay a (heavy) trip on someone — 1. tv. to riticize someone. □ There’s no need to lay a trip on me. I agree with you. □ When he finally does get there, I’m going to lay a heavy trip on him like he’ll never forget. 2. tv. to confuse or astonish someone. □ After he laid a heavy… …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• give (someone) a hard time — 1. to criticize someone and make them feel guilty about something that they have done. I came home late one night last week and she s been giving me a hard time about it ever since. (often + about) 2. to treat someone severely or to cause… …   New idioms dictionary