rub salt in a 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 a wound — To aggravate someone s sorrow, shame, regret, etc • • • Main Entry: ↑salt …   Useful english dictionary

• 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 …   English idioms

• 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

• salt in a wound — If you rub salt in a wound, you make someone feel bad about something that is already a painful experience. Pour salt on a wound is an alternative form of the idiom …   The small dictionary of idiomes