raw nerve


to “touch,” “hit,” “strike” a raw nerve – to upset someone by reminding him or her of a subject about which he or she has strong feelings.
1) alex’s mom recently died of lung cancer, so his sister hit a raw nerve by telling him that she had begun smoking.

2) pam struck a raw nerve in nick when she told him an anti-semitic joke. unbeknownst to pam, nick’s grandmother died in the holocaust.

3) fat jokes touch a raw nerve in samantha, who used to get made fun of in school for being overweight.

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