Cliché: rub salt in the wound

(entered for 4.04.06)

Meaning: make something painful worse. Meaning and uses.
Rewrite 1: rub lemon juice in the wound
Rewrite 2: torch^tv the burn
Rewrite 3: ice^tv the cavity²
Rewrite 4: put pressure on a broken bone

Comment: De we really want to give ideas to torturers?

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