Idiom meaning, usage examples, facts

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CUT (SOMEONE) TO THE QUICK
to hurt or wound someone deeply
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1. When Christina broke off their engagement, she hurt George’s feelings terribly. She cut him to the quick.
2. I was very hurt when my son and daughter-in-law told me they wouldn’t be spending Christmas with us this year. I was cut to the quick.

The expression suggests the idea of cutting live flesh (the quick).


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