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rub salt in the wound |
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rub salt in/into the wound
to make a difficult situation even worse for someone Losing was bad enough, having to watch them receiving the trophy just rubbed salt into the wound. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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To rub salt into the wound, the tennis was rained out on the opening day, yet we still had to suffer experts giving their views on the exciting matches to come. Just to rub salt into the wounds, we cannot even get the many overgrown trees and bushes throughout the area pruned by either Middlesbrough Council or Erimus Housing. But the American chose to rub salt into the wounds of his fellow competitors by out-sprinting T-Mobile rider Andreas Kloden to cross the finishing line first in Le Grand Bornard and winning the 20th Tour stage of his career after a gruelling six hours-plus riding in the Alps. |
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