- hit/strike/touch a nerve
- hit/strike/touch a nerve
Something she said to him must have hit/struck/touched a nerve. I've never seen him so angry.
• • •Main Entry: ↑nerve
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
hit/strike/touch a nerve
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strike a raw nerve — touch/strike/hit/etc a (raw) nerve phrase to say or do something that annoys or hurts someone because they are sensitive about it His comment seemed to strike a raw nerve. Thesaurus: to make someone feel a particular emotion or strong… … Useful english dictionary
hit a nerve — touch/strike/hit/etc a (raw) nerve phrase to say or do something that annoys or hurts someone because they are sensitive about it His comment seemed to strike a raw nerve. Thesaurus: to make someone feel a particular emotion or strong… … Useful english dictionary
strike a nerve — touch/strike/hit/etc a (raw) nerve phrase to say or do something that annoys or hurts someone because they are sensitive about it His comment seemed to strike a raw nerve. Thesaurus: to make someone feel a particular emotion or strong… … Useful english dictionary
nerve — I UK [nɜː(r)v] / US [nɜrv] noun Word forms nerve : singular nerve plural nerves ** 1) [countable] one of the groups of fibres in your body that carry messages between your brain and the rest of your body, communicating pain, pressure, feelings of … English dictionary
nerve — noun 1 in the body ADJECTIVE ▪ pinched (AmE), trapped (BrE) ▪ sensitive ▪ damaged ▪ facial, optic, sciatic … Collocations dictionary
nerve — nerve1 [ nɜrv ] noun ** 1. ) count one of the groups of fibers in your body that carry messages between your brain and the rest of your body, communicating pain, pressure, feelings of heat and cold, etc.: A pinched nerve is causing her a lot of… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
touch — v 1. feel, finger, thumb, palm; hold, pick up, handle, manipulate, twiddle, trifle with, play with; palpate, poke around in; examine or investigate or study with the hands, stroke, caress, pet, fondle, paw, Sl. feel up, Yiddish. glet; massage,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
touch — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I v. t. feel (see touch); contact; reach, equal, attain; pertain to, relate to; affect, move; tinge, imbue; slang, borrow from. See arrival, sensibility, relation, mixture, borrowing. touch up II … English dictionary for students
affect — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. influence, touch; concern, relate to; move, stir. See relation, disease, feeling, affectation. n. feeling, emotion. See sensibility. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To have an effect upon] Syn. influence,… … English dictionary for students
literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… … Universalium
