sore point
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sore point (plural sore points)
- (idiomatic) An action, belief, or state of affairs which is an enduring basis for disagreement or dissatisfaction.
- Synonyms: bone of contention, bone to pick, point of contention
- 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XVIII, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II, page 337:
- 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.
- 1911, Jack London, Adventure, ch. 6:
- 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.
- 2003 Oct. 27, Adam Zagorin and Scott MacLeod, "So Who's Talking To Iran?," Time:
- [T]he talks have touched on Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons program, its sponsorship of terrorism and other sore points.
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- “sore point”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.