rub salt into the woundinformalWORSE to make a bad situation even worse for someone 在伤口上抹盐,加深〔某人的〕痛苦rub salt into the wound• Boro rubbed salt into the wound by scoring with their first genuine scoring attempt.• To rub salt into the wound, they had Michael Mols sent off.
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