prick your conscience

成語所屬單字conscience

prick your conscience — 慣用語

1. to make you feel guilty or uncomfortable about something, especially causing you

1.慣用語
釋義

良心受譴責;使良心不安

to make you feel guilty or uncomfortable about something, especially causing you to change your behaviour

例句

Seeing the old woman sleeping on the street pricked her conscience and she offered to buy her a meal.

The film about how farm animals are treated pricked his conscience and he became a vegetarian the next week.