my conscience pricks me

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• your conscience pricks you — prick your ˈconscience | your ˈconscience pricks you idiom to make you feel guilty about sth; to feel guilty about sth • Her conscience pricked her as she lied to her sister. Main entry: ↑prickidiom …   Useful english dictionary

• conscience — noun (C, U) 1 MIND the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is morally right or wrong: Be guided by your conscience. | a social conscience (=a moral sense of how society should be) | a guilty/bad conscience (=feel guilty… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• prick your conscience — prick your ˈconscience | your ˈconscience pricks you idiom to make you feel guilty about sth; to feel guilty about sth • Her conscience pricked her as she lied to her sister. Main entry: ↑prickidiom …   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

• prick 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

• prick — prick1 [prık] v 1.) [T] to make a small hole in something using something sharp ▪ Prick the sausages before you grill them. prick yourself/prick your finger (=accidentally make a hole in your skin) ▪ She had pricked her finger on a rose thorn.… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• prick — /prɪk / (say prik) noun 1. a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like. 2. the act of pricking: the prick of a needle. 3. the state or sensation of being pricked. 4. Colloquial (taboo) a. the penis. b. an unpleasant or despicable person. 5.… …  

• prick — pricker, n. prickingly, adv. /prik/, n. 1. a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like. 2. a sharp point; prickle. 3. the act of pricking: the prick of a needle. 4. the state or sensation of being pricked. 5. a sharp pain caused by or as if… …   Universalium

• prick — [[t]prɪ̱k[/t]] pricks, pricking, pricked 1) VERB If you prick something or prick holes in it, you make small holes in it with a sharp object such as a pin. [V n] Prick the potatoes and rub the skins with salt... [V n prep] He pricks holes in the… …   English dictionary

• Prick — Prick, n. [AS. prica, pricca, pricu; akin to LG. prick, pricke, D. prik, Dan. prik, prikke, Sw. prick. Cf. {Prick}, v.] 1. That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• prick — I UK [prɪk] / US verb Word forms prick : present tense I/you/we/they prick he/she/it pricks present participle pricking past tense pricked past participle pricked 1) [transitive] to make a very small hole in the surface of something with a sharp… …   English dictionary