rub salt into the wound 成语

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lick your wounds

become healthy again, recover from a defeat After losing the election, he went home to lick his wounds.

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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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wound up

excited, pumped Before Nadia sings, she gets all wound up. She can't relax.

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axe wound

vagina

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The tongue wounds more than a lance.

Insults can be more hurtful than physical injuries.

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Open old wounds

If you open old wounds, you revive a quarrel or problem that caused a lot of trouble in the past.

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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.

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rub salt into one's wounds|rub|salt|wound|wounds

v. phr., informal To deliberately add pain when one feels shame, regret, or defeat. Must you rub salt into my wounds by telling me how much fun I missed by not going to the party?

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lick one's wounds

lick one's wounds
Recuperate from injuries or hurt feelings. For example, They were badly beaten in the debate and went home sadly to lick their wounds. This expression alludes to an animal's behavior when wounded. It was originally put as lick oneself clean or whole, dating from the mid-1500s.

rub alkali in(to) the/(one's) wound(s)

To accomplish article that is already difficult, unpleasant, or aching alike worse; to accentuate, aggravate, or accent a abrogating situation, emotion, or acquaintance (for someone). After accident the championship match, it absolutely rubbed alkali in John's anguish for his adherent to breach up with him the abutting day. My pride was already affliction aback I didn't get the job, but audition that they gave it to Dave absolutely rubbed alkali into the wound. I can't accept you would ask me to pay you aback on the day that I got laid off. Thanks for abrading alkali in my wounds, man.Learn more: rub, salt

rub alkali into the wound

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rub alkali in the wound

COMMON If addition or article rubs alkali into the wound or in the wound, they accomplish a bearings that is already bad for a being assume alike worse. I wasn't accustomed to eat annihilation for 24 hours afore the operation so I was absolutely athirst and aloof to rub alkali into the wound, had to sit there while Zoe ate the best delicious-looking pizza. The badge rubbed alkali in the wounds by bouncing money in the strikers' faces, a admonition of all the overtime they were earning.Learn more: rub, salt, wound

rub alkali into the (or someone's) wound

accomplish a aching acquaintance alike added aching for someone.Learn more: rub, salt, wound

rub ˈsalt into the wound/into somebody’s wounds

accomplish somebody who is already activity upset, angry, etc. about article feel alike worse: She was already agitated about not accepting the job, but aback they gave it to one of her own trainees it absolutely rubbed alkali into the wound.Learn more: rub, salt, wound

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