5 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RUB SALT INTO SOMEONE'S WOUNDS»
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rub salt into someone's wounds in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
rub salt into someone's wounds and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Food: A Dictionary of Literal and Nonliteral Terms
However, the modern expression to rub salt into someone's wounds means to
add insult to injury: to kick someone while they're down. The allusion is to the
extreme pain that salt causes when it touches raw flesh — almost as bad as
dousing ...
Robert Allen Palmatier, 2000
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English Pronouncing Dictionary
Lake City; salt .marsh; 'salt .shaker; rub .salt into someone's wounds; salt of the
earth; , take something with a .pinch/grainof'salt Saltaire so;l'tear, sdI- © sa:l'ter
saltant 'sael.tant, 'sail-, 'snl- ® 'sael.t'nt Saltash 'sail.taej\ 'sdI-® 'sail- saltation ...
Daniel Jones, Peter Roach, James Hartman, 2006
3
The Misunderstood Khushwant
Manoj Kumar Mishra. patience ran out and she went to call on Mrs Soni — the
city's most celebrated gossip-monger.12 She does not know how people are
always ready to rub salt into someone's wounds. Khushwant shows how ...
4
Englesko-srpski Frazeološki Rečnik: L-Z
trljanjem x That ink won't rub out. x If you spill coffee on the carpet try to rub it out
immediately with a damp cloth. to rub salt into someone's wounds x staviti so na
neliju iivu ranu x He spoke very rudely to her in front of her friends and then, ...
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Lexicographers and their works
... sabre rattling and health sapped by damp, to shoot one's bolt and soldier on:
Nautical: from take the wind out of someone's sails and all at sea, to Mi a snao
and in dire straits: Food and food preparation: from rub salt into someone's
wounds ...
