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help ever, hurt never, love all, serve all	Humanity is very essential and core of life.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
his knee was really hurt, but it's starting to get lined out now.	He had a bad injury to his knee and it’s starting to heel now. The problem is getting “straightened up” now.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hurt someone's feelings	To offend or hurt someone.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me	A response to taunting proclaiming the speaker's indifference.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me	Alternative form of sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
where does it hurt	Asked to find out where a wounded or ill person is feeling pain.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
would it hurt	Used to point out that the interlocutor is failing to do something relatively easy that they should be doing.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
wouldn't hurt a fly	To be of very gentle nature.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il est comme l'anguille de melun (more correctly, languille de melun), il crie avant qu'on l'écorche	He is like the eel of Melun, he cries out before he is hurt.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
let someone down gently	To reject or refuse someone in a way that avoids causing hurt or disappointment.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
sticks and stones	Evocative of the saying "sticks and stones may (or will) break my bones, but words (or names) will never hurt (or harm) me".1957, Brendan Gill, The Day the Money Stopped	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
tail between one's legs	A reaction to a confrontation, specifically one with excessive shame and hurt pride.	Rate it: (2.00 / 2 votes)
the doc says im going blind but i could never see anyway	Less hurt	Rate it: (2.00 / 2 votes)
get back	To do something to hurt or harm someone who has hurt or harmed you.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
offendere apud aliquem (Cluent. 23. 63)	to hurt some one's feelings.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
bad off	an extreme or severe situation i.e. badly beaten, in poor health or poor mental well being i.e. hurt, not doing well, struggling to stay alive, etc.; can also mean poor financially or bad in some other way	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
blind side someone	To injure, reveal shared private information or cause financial or personal loss through disloyalty or actions which hurt or disappoint.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
boo boo	a cut, scrape, "owie" or injury you get when you get hurt; usually a minor injury that only requires a BandAid; See also other definitions of "boo boo" and "Boo Boo"	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cut to the quick	To hurt a person deeply, especially emotionally.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cut to the Quick	To hurt someone in a grave manner; to act cold or unkind	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
dogs bark	Feet hurt.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
einmal ist keinmal	One time won’t hurt; just try it	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hoist by one's own petard	To be hurt, or destroyed by one's own plot or device, of one's own doing which one intended for another; to be "blown up by one's own bomb".	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
I've burned myself	Indicates that the speaker is physically hurt due to contact with fire or heat.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il a eu plus de peur que de mal	He was more frightened than hurt.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il en a dans l'aile	He is winged (hurt).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
in a bad way	an extreme or severe situation i.e. badly beaten, in poor health or poor mental well being i.e. hurt, not doing well, struggling to stay alive, etc.; can also mean poor financially or bad in some other way	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
in bad shape	an extreme or severe situation i.e. badly beaten, in poor health or poor mental well being i.e. hurt, not doing well, struggling to stay alive, etc.; can also mean poor financially or bad in some other way	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
in offensionem alicuius incurrere (Verr. 1. 12. 35)	to hurt some one's feelings.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
kein Wässerchen trüben können	wouldn't hurt a fly	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
least said, soonest mended	Hurt feelings are most quickly healed by not discussing the event giving rise to the hurt.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
neither a borrower nor a lender be	don't borrow or lend money (so you won't have regrets or hurt relationships)	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
not do someone any favors	To reflect badly on or to hurt in some way.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
offendere aliquem, alicuius animum	to hurt some one's feelings.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
offendi aliqua re (animus offenditur)	to feel hurt by something.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
once bitten, twice shy	One is cautious in the future if one has been hurt in the past.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
oopsie daisy	Something you say to a child or someone who has just fallen down as you pick the up to reassure them that they are okay/not hurt. It also alerts the person that you are going to pick them up.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
the biter bit	A hurt person who has hurt others in the past.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Turn the Other Cheek	To allow someone to hurt you or do something bad to you without defending yourself; almost ignoring an abuse	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
求心理陰影面積	to “calculate the psychological shaded area”, i.e. to evaluate how hurt someone is from an emotional insult / he or she must find this so hurtful or embarrassing	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)