stung

Related to stung: sting

sting (one) for (something)

To force one to pay a large amount of money, especially when that sum is surprising or seems unfair. The mechanic stung me for nearly $800 for various repairs when all I wanted him to do was change the oil. I was stung for a huge tax bill because of the money I won last summer.
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sting (one) to the quick

To deeply emotionally hurt or offend one. The comments stung me to the quick, but I remained composed and carried on with the lecture.
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sting (one) with (something)

1. Literally, to pierce one with some very small, sharp-pointed instrument or organ, especially as found on plants, insects, and sea life. Jellyfish are able to sting people with tiny harpoon-like structures along their tentacles called cnidocytes. When a honeybee stings you with its stinger, the barbed point becomes lodged in your skin, causing continued pain for you but death for the bee.
2. To present one with some charge, fine, or fee, especially one that is surprising or seems unfair. All the mechanic did was swap out a replacement part, but he stung me with an $800 repair bill. Just be aware that the airline will sting you with a hidden 10% administrative fee on top of all the other costs for your trip.
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stung to the quick

Deeply emotionally hurt or offended. I was stung to the quick to learn that they called my dress tacky behind my back. The hostess, stung to the quick by her guests' words, locked herself in the bedroom upstairs.
See also: quick, stung
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cut someone to the quick

 and cut someone to the bone 
1. Lit. to slice the flesh of someone or some animal clear through to the underlying layer of flesh or to the bone. With the very sharp knife, David cut the beast to the quick in one blow. He cut his finger to the quick with the sharp knife.
2. Fig. to injure someone emotionally. (See also cut something to the bone.) Your heartless comments cut me to the quick. Her remarks cut him to the bone.
See also: cut, quick
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

cut to the quick

Deeply wound or distress, as in His criticism cut her to the quick. This phrase uses the quick in the sense of a vital or a very sensitive part of the body, such as under the fingernails. It also appeared in such older locutions as touched to the quick, for "deeply affected," and stung to the quick, for "wounded, distressed," both dating from the early 1500s. The current expression was considered a cliché from about 1850 on.
See also: cut, quick
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

stung

mod. alcohol intoxicated. I’m a little stung by the mule, but I can find my way home if you’ll just remind me how to open this door.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

cut to the quick

To be deeply wounded; to have one’s feelings hurt. The noun “quick” means the living, as well as the most vital and important part; today it also means the very sensitive flesh between the fingernails and skin. To be touched to the quick, meaning to be deeply affected, has been used since the sixteenth century; it appears in John Heywood’s Proverbs and in several places in Shakespeare’s plays (Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors, and others). Another version is stung to the quick, as in “The last appellation stung her to the quick” (Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, 1742). “Cut to the quick” is a still later wording and has been a cliché since about 1850. See also quick and the dead.
See also: cut, quick
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • sting
  • sting (one) for (something)
  • sting for
  • sting someone for something
  • put (something) at (some amount of money)
  • put at an amount
  • bundle
  • in sum
  • grease monkey
  • get-rich-quick
References in periodicals archive
Cooky was stung as he walked in John Muir Country Park in Dunbar, East Lothian.
Cooky the greyhound is stung eating a jellyfish; PET OWNERS WARNED OF BEACH DANGER Vet worker's quick thinking saves dog after he suffers bad reaction
In the present case, histological identification of the decomposed fragments of a honeybee sting led to the definitive diagnosis, although the patient did not recall being stung.
A Foreign Body Granuloma of the Buccal Mucosa Induced by Honeybee Sting
The most frequent of scorpion stung people were in the range of 15-24 year old.
Scorpion Sting in Izeh, Iran: An Epidemiological Study During 2009-2011
On being stung in the genitals again, he recalled: "It wasn't a pleasurable experience, put it that way.
I got bees to sting my scrotum and lips to see where it hurt most*; SCIENTIST USES OWN BODY FOR PAINFUL EXPERIMENT
The post-graduate student, who is studying bee behaviour, said that if one has to choose to be stung between in the nose and the penis, they would want to be stung on the penis, as getting stung on the nose is a whole body-experience.
Where a bee sting stings the most
An inquest heard Mr Nileshwar had been stung at least three times before and had no history of suffering from allergies.
Man died after bee sting while mowing lawn
Scorpion-stung patients who referred to the health centre and hospital of city of Ramhormoz during 2006-2010 filled out a questioner requesting age, gender and residence of victim, stung part of body, color of stinging scorpion, treatment with or without antivenin injection, the way how antivenin applied and death due to the sting.
A Five Year Epidemiologic Study on Scorpion Stings in Ramhormoz, South-West of Iran
A substantial proportion of the population has been stung by fire ants or the insects suspected to be fire ants in the fire ant endemic areas.
Prevalence of Solenopsis invicta (hymenoptera: formicidae) venom allergic reactions in mainland China
One week later, he brought to us a similar insect that stung him and this insect was European hornet (Vespa Crabro Linnaeus) (Fig.
A rare cause of atrial fibrillation: a European hornet sting/Nadir bir atriyai fibrilasyon nedeni: Avrupa esek arisi sokmasi
It is advising anyone who has been stung to use a simpler - and less unpleasant - method of combating stings.
There's a wee problem on the beaches
In the current study the data of scorpion stings was stud-ied from the epidemiological aspects included: sex and ages of scorpion sting victims, background of patients, antivenin treatment, month of scorpion sting, scorpion stung part of body, color of scorpi-ons, geographical place (rural/urban).
Study of scorpionism in Kashan in central Iran
And a theory that is being investigated by Coroners' officers is that she suffered anaphylactic shock after being stung.
WOMAN KILLED BY BEE STING; Inquest into death of Eileen, 90: Bee sting link to death
Pathologist Melissa Conrad Stoppler said that about 3% of people stung by bees and wasps have an allergic reaction to the sting, and up to 0.8% of bee sting people experience the severe and life-threatening allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis.
Bee stings alternative treatment method
A study in the May 14 New England Journal of Medicine finds that an antivenom used in Mexico for such stings neutralizes the toxin, eliminates symptoms and reduces the need for sedation in children who have been stung. Eight of eight critically ill children receiving the antivenom showed no signs of venom in their blood after one hour and recovered within four hours, reports Leslie Boyer of the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Scorpion venom neutralized