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to rub salt in the wound
[rub] salt (in|into) {one's} woundsto rub salt in the wound
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to make a difficult or painful situation even worse for someone
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Disapproving
Idiom
Informal
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I ca n't believe you would ask me to pay you back on the day that I got laid off. Thanks for rubbing salt in my wounds.
The fact that the Champions League is increasingly dominated by English clubs just rubs salt into his wounds.
