piqué au vif

Je l'ai piqué au vif et il s'en souviendra.
And today I gave him a sting he'll not forget.
Vous m'avez piqué au vif.
You cut me to the quick.
Vous devez être piqué au vif à la pensée de votre propre culpabilité et de votre péché.
You must be cut to the quick by the thought of your own guilt and sin.
Ça vous a piqué au vif !
That got under your skin, didn't it?
Tu m'as piqué au vif.
That's it. You got me.
Ce qui m'a piqué au vif, c'est que j'étais pas bien dans mon corps.
And what really makes it sting is that I haven't felt good about my body for some time now.
Piqué au vif, le secrétaire général de l’ONU, Ban Ki-moon, a tenté de saboter cette initiative en proposant soudainement d’organiser lui aussi un Groupe de contact.
Cut to the quick, Ban Ki-Moon attempted to sabotage the initiative, countering with his own sudden effort to organize a Contact Group.
Quiconque entrave ou tout au moins complique sérieusement ces agissements pique au vif la criminalité organisée, l'empêche de se développer, porte atteinte à son extension.
Anyone who prevents this from happening, or at least makes it considerably more difficult, cuts organised crime to the quick, stunts its growth and damages its ability to propagate itself.
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