raw nerve
Example Sentences
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Such comments strike a raw nerve in Israel, a country established as a haven for Jews in the wake of the Holocaust.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2024
She attributed the movie’s widespread popularity to “having touched a raw nerve in the country.”
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 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
Galton’s talk might not have generated the effusive endorsement that he had expected—he later groused that his audience was “living forty years ago”—but he had obviously touched a raw nerve.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
