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Phrase

Rub Salt In The Wound

Meaning:

Feeling hurt or embarrassed, and then something happens that makes matters worse.

Examples:

  • Come back to rub salt in the wound, I suppose.
  • You come here to rub salt in the wound?
  • Ha!, now you rub salt in the wound.
  • Like to rub salt in the wound?
  • Rub salt in the wound.
  • To what, rub salt in the wound?
  • Time to rub salt in the wound?
  • Here to rub salt in the wound?

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