open wound Idiome

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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.

open wound

An abrasion that creates a aperture or break in the bark and is larboard apparent to the environment. With an accessible anguish that big, I anticipate you charge to go to the ER!Learn more: open, wound

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