315. Rub Salt In the Wound - Idioms - English Expressions - Rub Salt In the Wound / Rub Salt Into the Wound / Put salt into the Wound

Rub Salt In the Wound :  염장을 지르다, 사태를 더 악화시키다, 불난집에 부채질 하다

Rub Salt Into the Wound 

Put salt into the Wound

 

1)

this is talking about a bad situation

something that is probably upsetting or difficult to bear and put up with

the economic situation of the company wasn't very good and that every body would have to be patient and some people weren't very happy about this but then to rub salt in the wound we descovered that the chairman had a 30 percent pay rise

 

2)

to exacerbate a bad situation

to aggravate it

to fan the flames

to add insult to injury

his team lost, we spent all day rubing salt into the wound, teashing him about him

we are making it worse by teaching and making jokes about it

if somebody rubs salt in the wound or puts salt in the wound, your reminding of your failure or your faults

to make matters worse

It really made a situation that's already difficult even more painful

makes it more unpleasant

it's the intensification of a negative emotion

to twist the knife, to turn the knife 

to twist the knife in the wound

to rub it in

 

 

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