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APAD: Rub it in

移花接木 2025-12-10 03:19:21 ( reads)

Rub it in

It means to emphasize someone's failure or embarrassment, often cruelly, or to boast about your own success to someone else's disadvantage (add insult to injury). To keep bringing up a mistake, failure, or something embarrassing that someone already feels bad about, or to gloat.

It's used to tell someone to stop dwelling on something negative or to stop bragging. While sometimes it might be intended as friendly teasing, in most contexts, it is considered mean, insensitive, and deliberately hurtful behavior in situations like: 

 boasts excessively about an achievement or stroke of luck in front of someone who wanted the same thing but failed to get it; keeps bringing up a mistake or failure that a person would rather forget, often to humiliate them;  emphasizes their superiority in a way that is insensitive to the other person's feelings, like adding "salt to a wound". 

E.g.  (Negative): "I know I messed up the presentation, but don't rub it in".
E.g. (Bragging): "Not to rub it in, but I got the promotion you wanted".

 

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最西边的岛上

2025-12-10 04:28:02

Dragon slayer eventually become dragon? Better not. Thx.

最西边的岛上

2025-12-10 07:09:50

(fyi: just went 吐槽ing in唱坛, honest but not rubbed it in :-))

移花接木

2025-12-10 08:44:56

no bragging, no gloating, no flattering, neutral comment4me

移花接木

2025-12-10 08:45:46

never bother how to flatter

最西边的岛上

2025-12-10 09:00:46

Shake 不拍马 hands & keep being that way !!!

妖妖灵

2025-12-10 07:42:10

给伤口上撒盐

妖妖灵

2025-12-10 07:43:25

When dealing with someone annoying, just rub it in.

移花接木

2025-12-10 08:52:10

Not for me; me hurting no one's ego under all circumstances

妖妖灵

2025-12-10 09:21:57

me only to the extreme people. admire你的忍耐力太好了:)

移花接木

2025-12-10 09:29:05

对此,我好像不用费力气去忍,自然而然,哈哈哈哈哈

妖妖灵

2025-12-10 09:30:35

哈哈哈,更厉害了。Silence treatment,牛!我今天必须和你学会:Just ignore it:)

移花接木

2025-12-10 09:54:49

再加上不主动不负责就成了那个fake monk假行僧了,哈哈哈

妖妖灵

2025-12-10 10:29:13

LOL,假行僧+姜太公,哈哈哈。我又要有任务了,你还查那什么吗?过两天没准和你联系呢~

JoyAnna.

2025-12-10 08:53:52

7G 兄knows I failed my diet, yet he still asks if i had cake

JoyAnna.

2025-12-10 08:57:59

on top of my double-butter bread. It’s bloody rubbing it in

JoyAnna.

2025-12-10 08:59:23

I protest, thank you very much!

最西边的岛上

2025-12-10 09:04:54

Hi 7G, pls come fast, U r rubbed out (Joking only :-)

JoyAnna.

2025-12-10 09:07:49

Hahaha

7grizzly

2025-12-10 14:07:31

All my friends have grown thick skin.

最西边的岛上

2025-12-11 06:22:15

:-((( Hopefully not here。我参加APAD是为了学习哲理分享品味书香幽默,我不能也不会忘了初心!!

7grizzly

2025-12-10 14:08:05

I rubbed so much that they call me the salt of the earth.

最西边的岛上

2025-12-10 14:16:54

Learnt & we need salt of the earth, the more the better! Thx

JoyAnna.

2025-12-10 15:53:18

做盐做光~~

移花接木

2025-12-11 11:09:57

I'd call you the seasoning of the earth