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
Faith	FAYTH	English
Alexey	ah-lyek-SYAY (Russian), ah-leek-SYAY (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Renard	rə-NAR	French (Rare)
Hortense	or-TAWNS (French)	French, English
Ivey	['aivi]
Syntyche	SIN-tə-kee (English)	Biblical, Biblical Greek, Ancient Greek