“Rub salt in the wound”in other languages
Make someone's pain or embarrassment worse.
English
German
Russian
EnglishGermanRussianSame idea, different pictures
All three use the same sting: salt on an open cut. English rubs it in, German strews it, Salz in die Wunde streuen, and Russian pours it, сыпать соль на рану. The idea is usually that it's done on purpose.
More sayings in other languages
- Sell someone a bill of goods
- Send someone packing
- Set one's sights on something
- Shoot oneself in the foot
- Have a short fuse
- Shoulder to shoulder
- Sit on one's hands
- Sit on the fence
- Sitting pretty