salt-in-the-wound

Noun

(uncountable)

(idiomatic) Something that increases someone's pain.
That's just salt in his wounds.

Usage notes

The can be replaced by a or a possessive.
Wound can appear as a plural.
In can be replaced by prepositions such as into, on, to, and from, the latter changing the sense, but staying within the metaphor.

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