And his words, simple yet powerful, had touched a raw nerve.

In the company of old friends, he's a raw nerve.

"They didn't slip anything over on me," she said in a voice that told of raw nerves.

He would have been going on plain, raw nerve for most of it.

A. I think it strikes a raw nerve, particularly in men.

But this particular crime touched a raw nerve in her.

"But this time I must have touched a raw nerve."

The issues have touched a raw nerve with hate groups.

She felt the impact of his kiss with every raw nerve in her body.

By which answer Nicholas knew he had hit a raw nerve.