cut to the quick

常见例句

This seems to cut to the quick of what Wikipedia is about.
这似乎直指维基百科宗旨的要害。
The insult added to the disappointment cut me to the quick.
滚到外面去！” 失望加上受辱，让我逃之夭夭。
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先生担心,这种疯狂的折扣可能清理了货架，但是也触及了生意的痛处，吓退了潜在的投资者和救助者。

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