The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.
The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.
Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you’ll just let it happen. (Marianne)
A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.
I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up havinglittle scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those withsequins all over them.
Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.