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idiomwounds► rub salt in/into sb's woundslick your wounds to think about and get used to a situation or event that has publicly embarrassed or disappointed you a lot ◆ often used in newspapers, on television news etc:Gold dealers are licking their wounds after the sharpest single-day drop in the price of gold in recent memory.The defence team in the Palmer trial have gone off to lick their wounds in private, after Sydney Palmer was sentenced to 30 years in prison today.
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See:- all wound up
- bellow like a (wounded) bull, to
- have (someone) wound around (one's) (little) finger
- have (someone) wound round (one's) (little) finger
- lick (one's) wounds
- lick one's wounds
- lick wounds
- lick your wounds
- open old wounds
- open wound
- pour salt in(to) the/(someone's) wound(s)
- reopen old wounds
- rub in
- rub salt in a wound
- rub salt in(to) the/(one's) wound(s)
- rub salt into the wound
- rub salt into the wound/into somebody's wounds
- salt in the/(one's) wound(s)
- time heals all wounds
- twist the knife
- walking wounded
- wind back
- wind down
- wind up
- wind up (by) (doing something)
- wind up in
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