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A knife is an object, a sharp instrument, which is made up of a blade and a handle. So the handle is in the hand, and the blade is metal, often, we use it to cut things. To cut bread, we take a knife. To cut meat, we take a knife etc.

And a wound is another way of saying an injury, often on the skin. If you have an injury on your skin somewhere, you say you have a wound.

So here, you are imagining that I have a knife in my hand, that this knife is in a wound and that I move it, the knife. So even if we do not know the exact origin of this expression, we can very very well understand what it means by imagining. If someone has a wound, it is because they are injured, they are suffering, so it is very painful. And if I take this knife or a knife, that I stick it in the place where it is painful and that in addition I move it, then the pain will be even stronger, the pain will be unbearable. It would be an additional useless pain, if we move the knife in the wound.

And of course, today, we don't use this expression literally. Nobody takes a knife and twists it in a wound. But when we use this expression, the image behind it is that we insist on a delicate subject, we talk about something painful, when it is not necessarily necessary. We want to talk about a subject that hurts someone, quite simply. So there is this spirit of pain and this spirit of amplification of a pain, but it is more often a moral pain than a physical one.

For example, let's imagine that "Yes, I know I missed the last day of registrations for the Authentic French Academy . No need to rub salt in the wound." That means it's already painful for philippines whatsapp number data me to have missed these registrations, there's no point in talking to me about it again and insisting on this delicate subject, talking about this subject that is painful for me. So don't rub salt in the wound, that means stop talking to me about this thing that makes me suffer.

Another example: "She didn't get the raise she wanted, so try not to talk about it. There's no point rubbing salt in the wound." So here, there's a person who wanted a raise, she didn't get it, and we tell one of her friends "don't talk about it, don't talk to her about it" because we don't want to rub salt in the wound, we don't want it to be even more painful for her, so we don't want you to bring up this sensitive subject.

Last example: "I didn't know he was the type to rub salt in the wound. He seems so nice." So here, we indicate that there is a person who seems nice to us, kind, but that in fact this person is not so nice, because... he's a man, eh... he tends to rub salt in the wound, that means he insists on delicate subjects, he talks about things that are painful for others, he rubs salt in the wound. That's it, quite simply.

And I'm sure that you have now perfectly understood the meaning of this expression. I suggest that you practice your pronunciation a little and we will work on the spelling of the sound "o", because "o" can be written with an "o", it can be written "au" or it can be written "eau". In "knife", we have "eau". And so I will give you names or words that have the sound "o" and that have different spellings.