sore point, a



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.
See also: sore

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Vale-English
KustaaKOOS-tah:Finnish
Ealisaid-Manx
BurkhartBOORK-hahrt (German)German, Ancient Germanic
Onesiphorus-Biblical, Biblical Latin
Siorus-Welsh