to the core

"It pains me to the core that in my country they boo the captain of the national team," he added.

Two years on, the split is sharper than ever between Hamas loyalists who still defend the movement to the core, and a war-weary majority of Gazans who have lost patience with endless destruction and despair.

When she and her friends got to the safety of the trees — it has to be a group of trees of similar height; a single tree, or a very tall tree, can act as a lightning rod — they were “soaked to the bone” and shaken to the core, she said.

How could any son not be shaken to the core after discovering that he not only killed his father but married his mother and sired his own siblings!

“I’m a person who lost our home, everything in our home, and I went up there because I believed that of all the bills … this got to the core of the issue,” Arnzen said in an interview.