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bruise someone's ego
idiom
If an experience bruises your ego, it upsets you because it makes you feel less valuable or important: 伤了…的自尊
I don't think it broke Steve's heart when Cherise left him, but it certainly bruised his ego.我想雪妮丝的离开并没有使史蒂夫为之心碎，但这的确挫伤了他的自尊心。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Humiliating and degrading
abase
abasement
be under a cloudidiom
bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom
cut someone down to sizeidiom
dishonour
dishonourable
dishonourably
doghouse
exhibition
ignobly
ignominious
ignominiously
ignominy
in the doghouseidiom
shoddily
shoddiness
shoddy
stoop
stoop to something
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