touch a raw nerve , auch: touch a nerve
hit a raw nerve , auch: hit a nerve
strike a raw nerve , auch: strike a nerve

"But this time I must have touched a raw nerve."

The issues have touched a raw nerve with hate groups.

But this particular crime touched a raw nerve in her.

And his words, simple yet powerful, had touched a raw nerve.

Here in Kentucky, the issue has touched a raw nerve for a different reason.

His latest action appears to have touched a raw nerve.

"I understand that hearing touched a raw nerve among women," he said recently.

He could tell he'd touched a raw nerve with Tombstone.

"You apparently touched a raw nerve in her," I said.

The shock with which last week's decision was received shows that the policy has touched a raw nerve.

She also knew that she had touched a raw nerve.

His remarks touched a raw nerve and irritated senior Government officials.

In fact, the question touches a raw nerve in our society.

It was as if I'd touched a raw nerve.

Monty sensed she had touched a raw nerve and changed the subject.

Still, the clash over credits touches a raw nerve.

This touched a raw nerve in Germany, the romantic desire to escape from conflict.

Mr. Stone's release today touched a raw nerve with one victim's family.

"No." Sam sensed that with mention of her stepfather he had touched a raw nerve.

The pathos that she was trying to project was touching a raw nerve.

Her anguish touched a raw nerve inside him.

He could see from the sourness in the young man's face that he had touched a raw nerve.

Higher stipends for foreign students or other signs of preferential treatment increasingly seem to touch a raw nerve.

But it touched a raw nerve and exposed a groundswell of bitterness among ordinary families.

Luke's statement touched a raw nerve, and he tried to conceal it as much as possible.

By which answer Nicholas knew he had hit a raw nerve.

With the campaign season fast approaching, Democrats hit a raw nerve.

He could see that he'd hit a raw nerve.

The question came out more harshly than he'd intended, but she'd hit a raw nerve.

Naturally this just meant that I was being defensive because they'd hit a raw nerve.

So that episode hit a raw nerve with me.

There's a defensive edge to her voice, the sleepy tone gone, as if I've hit a raw nerve.

The intense international scrutiny of Greece's antiterrorism record also hit a raw nerve.

Most corporate artwork is not controversial, but even companies that are just trying to create a more cheerful working environment can hit a raw nerve.

"Litigation doesn't prove anything and it hits a raw nerve," she said in a recent interview.

"We've hit a raw nerve, and they understand that they have really missed the boat," he said in an interview.

Though the humor can hit a raw nerve with some spectators, it appears to ease the apprehensions of most.

And so when Ordo was raided, it really hit a raw nerve."

Have I hit a raw nerve?

For some, Mr. Bishop hits a raw nerve rather than the funny bone.

Some glint in Lupus' dark eyes toll Marcus he'd hit a raw nerve.

It hit a raw nerve in Israel where a broad consensus holds Jerusalem to be the eternal, united capital.

"I must admit, it hits a raw nerve with me, Boyko.

I'm not sure how he winged it but his claiming hit a raw nerve with me (he had obviously received a pay-off).

'You hit a raw nerve,' he said.

Then, back home, he had beaten an Irishman senseless in a pub because the man's Belfast accent hit a raw nerve.

Mr. Schwarz is aware that this policy of nonaggression and nonviolence hits a raw nerve in some people.

"This visit hits a raw nerve for relatives of victims of this terrorist act," Szpiner said.

Elder Niece Kee hit a raw nerve.

While Israel is not the only country to bar immigrants who carry the AIDS virus, the restriction has hit a raw nerve here.