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Welcome to English in a minute from home nerve endings in our body.
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Let us feel pain.
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So is the phrase to hit a nerve mean we're hurting?
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What?
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Listen, things are getting weird.
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Jonathan.
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Oh, no.
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What happened down?
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I was shopping the other day and I bumped this woman's cart.
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She went crazy, yelling and shaking her fist at me.
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It sounds like you may have hit a nerve, a nerve.
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Who has an issue with a shopping cart To hit a nerve means to do or say something that's extra sensitive to someone they may become annoyed, upset or even angry.
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All bad feelings.
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You'll also hear people say, touch a nerve or strike a nerve to mean the same thing, and that's English in a minute.