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hurt someone's feelings
vs
rub salt in the wound
hurt someone's feelings
verb
To offend or emotionally hurt someone.
rub salt in the wound
verb
To make an injury, physical or emotional, feel worse.
How often have the words
hurt someone's feelings
and
rub salt in the wound
occurred in a corpus of books?
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Google Ngram Viewer
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