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rub salt in a wound
verb as in exacerbate
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It’s both painful and insulting to rub salt in a wound.
From Scientific American
Sadly, Sibson Consulting discovered even worse results, where only 5 percent of respondents graded their company’s performance management practices at the highest level on a 5-point scale. To rub salt in a wound, the firm also found that 58 percent of HR managers actually disliked their own performance management practices.
From Forbes
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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