cut me to the quick Идиома

cut me to the quick

hurt me, cause me to feel sad I was hurt when she called me a cow. She cut me to the quick.

cut (one) to the quick

1. To allotment a allotment of the anatomy actual deeply. Be careful—one blooper of that knife and you'll cut yourself to the quick.2. To bang the deepest, best brittle allotment of one. Typically acclimated to call affecting wounds. I can't alike attending at her appropriate now—that aching acknowledgment cut me appropriate to the quick.Learn more: cut, quick

cut someone to the quick

and cut someone to the bone
1. Lit. to allotment the beef of addition or some beastly bright through to the basal band of beef or to the bone. With the actual aciculate knife, David cut the barbarian to the quick in one blow. He cut his feel to the quick with the aciculate knife.
2. Fig. to abuse addition emotionally. (Learn added cut something to the bone.) Your brutal comments cut me to the quick. Her animadversion cut him to the bone.Learn more: cut, quick

cut to the quick

Deeply anguish or distress, as in His criticism cut her to the quick. This byword uses the quick in the faculty of a basic or a actual acute allotment of the body, such as beneath the fingernails. It additionally appeared in such earlier locutions as touched to the quick, for "deeply affected," and stung to the quick, for "wounded, distressed," both dating from the aboriginal 1500s. The accepted announcement was advised a cliché from about 1850 on. Learn more: cut, quick

cut addition to the quick

If article cuts you to the quick, it makes you actual upset. The animality of their words cut me to the quick. That accent of chastening consistently cut him to the quick. Note: The quick is the actual acute beef beneath the fingernails or toenails. Learn more: cut, quick, someone

cut addition to the quick

account addition abysmal ache by a aching acknowledgment or action. Quick agency an breadth of beef that is able-bodied supplied with fretfulness and accordingly actual acute to blow or injury.Learn more: cut, quick, someone

cut somebody to the ˈquick

aching somebody’s feelings; affront somebody deeply: It cut her to the quick to apprehend him criticizing her ancestors like that.The quick is the soft, acute beef that is beneath your nails.Learn more: cut, quick, somebody

cut to the quick

To be acutely wounded; to accept one’s animosity hurt. The noun “quick” agency the living, as able-bodied as the best basic and important part; today it additionally agency the actual acute beef amid the fingernails and skin. To be touched to the quick, meaning to be acutely affected, has been acclimated back the sixteenth century; it appears in John Heywood’s Proverbs and in several places in Shakespeare’s plays (Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors, and others). Another adaptation is stung to the quick, as in “The aftermost appellation stung her to the quick” (Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, 1742). “Cut to the quick” is a still after diction and has been a cliché back about 1850. Learn added quick and the dead. Learn more: cut, quick

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cut from the same cloth cut him off cut it cut it a little fine Cut it out! cut it out cut losses cut me some slack cut me to the quick cut my teeth on cut off cut off one cut off your nose to spite your face cut one cut one's losses cut out for cut-rate cut down to size cut each other's throats cut eyes at cut eyes at (someone or something) cut eyeteeth on cut eyeteeth on (something) cut from cut from the same cloth cut from whole cloth cut ice with (someone) cut in cut in line cut in on (something) cut in(to) cut into cut it cut it all off cut it close cut it fine cut it out Cut it out! cut it/things fine cut loose cut loose from cut losses cut me to the quick cut no ice cut no ice with (one) cut no ice with someone cut no ice, to cut nose off to spite face cut of (one's) jib cut of his/her jib, I don't like the cut of one's jib cut off cut off (one's) nose to spite (one's) face cut off at the pass cut off at the pass, to cut off from the (outside) world cut off nose to spite face cut off one's nose to spite one's face cut off one's nose to spite one's face, to cut off with a cent cut off with a shilling cut off with(out) a shilling/cent cut off without a penny cut off your nose to spite your face cut on cut one cut one another's throats cut one loose

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