Idiom
salt in the wound
Meaning
Something that increases someone's pain.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Losing the game was bad, but his comments added salt in the wound.”
“She already felt terrible about failing the test, so his criticism was just salt in the wound.”
“The company's decision to fire him on his birthday served as salt in the wound after he had already lost his promotion.”
Examples
simple
“Losing the game was bad, but his comments added salt in the wound.”
contextual
“She already felt terrible about failing the test, so his criticism was just salt in the wound.”
complex
“The company's decision to fire him on his birthday served as salt in the wound after he had already lost his promotion.”
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