cut to the quick

英汉例句

This seems to cut to the quick of what Wikipedia is about.
這似乎直指維基百科宗旨的要害。
The insult added to the disappointment cut me to the quick.
滾到外麪去！” 失望加上受辱，讓我逃之夭夭。
Such desperate discounts may have cleared shelves but they have also cut businesses to the quick, spooking potential investors and rescuers, Mr Hood fears.
Hood先生擔心,這種瘋狂的折釦可能清理了貨架，但是也觸及了生意的痛処，嚇退了潛在的投資者和救助者。

It sounds like you're trying to really cut to the quick.
NPR: Admiral Coordinating New Orleans Recovery
Her voice was as cold as ever, that voice in which she always recounted her life with the detachment of a bad storyteller, putting exclamation marks in all the wrong places, and passing over what she should have gone into, the parts where she should have cut to the quick.
NEWYORKER: Clara
And we may learn how to cut it to the quick.
NPR: 'Mississippi Burning,' 41 Years Too Late