rub salt into the wound

Meaning

1. to make a difficult experience even more difficult for sb

In the movies · 1

• I don't mean to rub salt in your wound, but you ain't got a good life here in Jackson.The Help2011

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• rub nose in it
• rub shoulders with
• rub up the wrong way
• not have two beans, brain cells, to rub together
• rub along
• rub down
• rub down
• rub it in
• rub off
• rub off
• rub out
• rub out