cut to the quick

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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.

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单词	cut to the quick
释义	cut to the quick SEE SYNONYMS FOR cut to the quick ON THESAURUS.COM 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. Words nearby cut to the quick cuttle, cuttlebone, cuttlefish, cut to the bone, cut to the chase, cut to the quick, cutty, cutty grass, cuttyhunk, Cutty Sark, cutty stool The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to cut to the quick annoy, curse, taunt, ridicule, irritate, slander, libel, outrage, provoke, mock, humiliate, offend, revile, persecute, insult, criticize, decry, squelch, discredit, deride
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cut to the quick

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