rub salt in the wound



rub salt in/into the wound

to make a difficult situation even worse for someone Losing was bad enough, having to watch them receiving the trophy just rubbed salt into the wound.
See also: rub, salt, wound

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Christianekris-tee-AH-nə (German), krees-TYAHN (French)German, French
ClevelandKLEEV-ləndEnglish
Aditya-Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Nepali, Indonesian
Herleif-Norwegian
Dalimil-Czech, Slovak
Harshal-Indian, Marathi, Gujarati