hit a nerve; hit a raw nerve(Anglophile); touch someone on tenderest nerve(from The Final Diagnosis by A.Hailey Galdbera); strike a raw nerve(bigmaxus); touch a nerve(She suddenly looked distressed and I knew I'd touched a raw nerve. • Eileen's innocent remark to Mike seemed to have touched a nerve. • Forgive me if I touched a nerve. – Простите, если задела вас за живое.); strike a nerve(The column clearly struck a nerve with Russia's air defense experts. Indeed, former chief of staff of Russia's air defense forces, Col. Gen. Igor Maltsev, told Gazeta.ru that stealth technology was "paper fiction."artery); rub the wrong way(Ron's rude remark rubbed Rick the wrong way.ART Vancouver)
