rub salt in someone's wounds (English, verb)
expansion: rub salt in someone's wounds (third-person singular simple present rubs salt in someone's wounds, present participle rubbing salt in someone's wounds, simple past and past participle rubbed salt in someone's wounds)
Senses:
glosses: To make a painful situation even worse (even with the best of intentions).
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: rubs salt in someone's wounds
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rubbing salt in someone's wounds
tags: participle
present
form: rubbed salt in someone's wounds
tags: participle
past
form: rubbed salt in someone's wounds
tags: past
form: rub salt in the wound
tags: alternative