raw nerve

His drive, charisma, and raw nerve have made him a very dangerous man.

For ordinary citizens, meanwhile, the steep prices for high-speed train tickets have touched China's raw nerve of rising income inequality.

Any talk of raising the cost of college tuition touches a raw nerve with students.

A possible contribution from China to the eurozone bail-out has hit a raw nerve in Washington for precisely this reason.

The 35-episode TV series has touched a raw nerve in its audience, who sympathize with the characters' moral dilemmas.

The verdict touched a raw nerve in France, mixing complex questions of sexual equality, secularism and Islam.

No wonder the absence of a Chinese team in the World Cup has touched a raw nerve.

Reports of Chinese snapping up Japan's mountains and forests have struck a raw nerve, however.

Noyes' comments have clearly touched a "raw nerve" at the Holy See, Franco said.

So in 2008, when Aluminum Corporation of China put forward a plan to mine bauxite there, it struck a raw nerve.

The text message seemed to touch a raw nerve.

The issue has struck an especially raw nerve in China, where superstitions attached to the new year period are strong.

You hit a raw nerve when you mentioned his first wife.

Yet the proposal has touched a raw nerve, and not just because of its size.

So from the perspective of stakeholders, to study the establishment and development of mining rights market, hit a raw nerve.