КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «RUB SALT INTO SOMEONE'S WOUNDS»
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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
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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 ...
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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 ...