slap in the face

“People like me are being defined out of existence. It’s really a slap in the face, calling us not really Americans.”

"Getting some money back is better than nothing - but it's a slap in the face," Denise Hudson, who shelled out nearly £2,500, said.

Winston Pingeon, a Capitol Police officer who was punched and pepper sprayed that day, told Newshour the pardons were a "slap in the face".

“It’s a slap in the face to all the good Americans who actually deserve to be recognized for their public service or for their sacrifice or for their community activism,” he said, before criticizing Biden for supposedly snubbing first responders, soldiers and humanitarians.

“The last-minute delay for Tom’s sentencing feels like a slap in the face,” said Kathy Ruigomez, who testified about how Girardi mishandled millions of dollars of a settlement from Pacific Gas & Electric after her son, Joseph, suffered severe burns in the San Bruno, Calif., gas explosion.