Meaning of sore point | Babel Free

Definitions

An action, belief, or state of affairs which is an enduring basis for disagreement or dissatisfaction.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“The affair of the chaplaincy remained a sore point in his memory as a case in which this petty medium of Middlemarch had been too strong for him.”

“It is a sore point with me, this being told what I am to do or not do by you self-constituted lords of creation.”

“[T]he talks have touched on Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons program, its sponsorship of terrorism and other sore points.”

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