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sore point, a
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A sensitive or annoying issue, as in Don't mention diets to Elsie; it's a sore point with her . This idiom was first recorded as a sore place in 1690.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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