Bird flu is like ordsprog

On top of all this, bird flu is like rubbing salt into the wounds. There have not been cancellations but there is a slowdown in bookings.

Bird flu is like rubbing salt into the wounds. There have not been cancellations but there is a slowdown in bookings.

We are not seeing cancellations, but we are not seeing new bookings either,

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth

Rebecca West (1892-1983)

Rebecca West

Strö salt i såren (orsaka ytterligare skada)

Add insult to injury; rub salt into somebody's wounds

Pex Tufvesson created the music program Noisetracker. The circumstances of the accident were tragic enough. All this does is just rub salt into these wounds.

To make blanket statements and make blanket indictments, it's not correct. A lot of people were offended by that because we took pride in what we did. ...For him to say something like that is like rubbing salt in an open wound. So for him to apologize is tremendous.

We fully understand the principles of supply and demand. But it is difficult to see this as anything other than a $14 billion cash grab by the oil industry that is pouring salt into the wounds of a global crisis.

Giovanni Bisignani

[The community] hasn't even had time from the first wounds to heal before we're pouring salt right back into that wound, ... It's as traumatic for me as I'm sure a lot of you and a lot of this community.

I caught the 9-year-old smoking one of my cigarettes, so I pulled his britches down and I spanked his bare bottom. He was almost done crying, and I was rubbing his cheeks to help soothe the pain. Well, his older brother walked in on us and seen me rubbing his butt.

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

Peter Brook (1925-)

[He] is salt rubbed in the wounds of the nation's conscience. He is a scream of pain. He is an accusing finger thrust in the face of white America. He is a fierce, brilliant light illuminating the unspeakable and the shameful.

Fern Marja Eckman

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

Prior to the war, bookings for April travel were good. Since the war began, booking trends have been inconsistent, ... Uncertainties created by the war with Iraq render it impossible to predict future bookings and traffic.

[But not only are our pets waiting,] animals of every kind live on the Other Side, ... you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of your dog's toenails clicking on the wood floor, or hear the familiar song your bird used to sing. Our pets do come back to visit us.

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