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Sore point

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  1. 1
    An action, belief, or state of affairs which is an enduring basis for disagreement or dissatisfaction. idiomatic

    "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."

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