open wound
Noun
Meaning
open wound (plural open wounds)
A wound which pierces the skin (and/or exterior bones), so as to bare flesh and/or internal organs.
Open wounds often cause heavy bleeding and grave danger of invasive infection.
Examples
But I feel like it will be an open wound for a really long time and it might not ever get closed or healed.”
He then places a jack-in-the-box inside the open wound, which eventually bursts open and sends his opponent's head flying into the air.
Meeting trafficking survivors, religious sisters caring for victims and dozens of senior police officials in April, he called human trafficking “an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ.”
That first terrible year was all scotch and bad decisions poured into my open wound.
"It would heal, a scab would form, it would fall off and an open wound would be there until a new scab would form.
Reflecting upon her approach, she said: “As an artiste, I am an open wound every time I go to a project, whether it is a show or an album or whatever it is that I decide that I need to do at that moment.