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a smack in the face

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phrase

(also a smack in the eye)
informal

  • Something that causes great offense, disappointment, or distress.

    • ‘the government's refusal to reconsider their decision is another smack in the face for those workers’
    rebuff, rejection, repulse, snub, insult, affront, put-down, humiliation, blow to one's pride, slap in the face
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