sore point, a

A sensitive or annoying issue, as in Don't mention diets to Elsie; it's a sore point with her. This idiom was first recorded as a sore place in 1690.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Clement	['klemənt]
Nikola (2)	NEE-ko-lah (German)	German, Polish, Czech, Slovak
Jiro	jee-ṙo:	Japanese
Ben (1)	BEN	English, German, Dutch
Othello	o-THEL-o (English)	Literature
MargrÉT	-	Icelandic