- added insult to injury
- made a hurtful situation even worse, hurt someone even more than he has been hurt already
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
added insult to injury
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add insult to injury — {v. phr.} 1. To hurt someone s feelings after doing him harm. * /He added insult to injury when he called the man a rat after he had already beaten him up./ 2. To make bad trouble worse. * /We started on a picnic, and first it rained, then to add … Dictionary of American idioms
add insult to injury — {v. phr.} 1. To hurt someone s feelings after doing him harm. * /He added insult to injury when he called the man a rat after he had already beaten him up./ 2. To make bad trouble worse. * /We started on a picnic, and first it rained, then to add … Dictionary of American idioms
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