Jenne Phuong
2021-11-20 10:11
The iron enters (into) (someone's) soul verb phrase
Used to say that someone was badly and deeply hurt or affected by imprisonment or ill-treatment
The iron has entered deeply into the boy's soul because of people's discrimination.
Born in a violent family, the girl has grown up with the iron entering her soul.
Beat someone up
To make one feel extremely upset, hurt or offended
If you do something dangerous or risky, you will get hurt.
The verb “enter" should be conjugated according to its tense.
This expression comes from a phrase in the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible, "ferrum pertransit animam ejus" , a mistranslation of the Hebrew which literally translates as ‘his person entered into the iron’, meaning ‘he was placed in fetters’.
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