raw nerve
Example Sentences
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She attributed the movie’s widespread popularity to “having touched a raw nerve in the country.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
The humanitarian tragedy of some 100,000 Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh, a part of Azerbaijan with a predominantly Armenian population, followed a brutal military operation last month and touched a raw nerve in Europe.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
For many Arabs this hits a raw nerve.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2022
For the most part, “Fall” works because it plucks on the same raw nerve, over and over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
Hard scales brush past my raw nerve endings.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
