Definition of add insult to injury

add insult to injury

• to make a bad situation worse.

  Last edited on Sep 02 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'add':
add fuel to the fire	Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
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Other terms relating to 'injury':
UBI	Definitions include: acronym for "unexplained beer injury", used on medical charts by doctors in the UK.
Other terms relating to 'to':
3 sheets to the wind	Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
9 to 5	Definitions include: See nine to five.
add fuel to the fire	Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
all your base are belong to us	Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority.
*ss-to-mouth	Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio.
back to (one's) roots	Definitions include: to revisit one's past.
back to square one	Definitions include: to go back to the beginning.
balls to the wall	Definitions include: extreme; "all out".
beat all to hell	Definitions include: to be vastly superior.
beat to the punch	Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else.
be greek to	Definitions include: to be unintelligible.
be up to	Definitions include: to do.
bigger fish to fry	Definitions include: more important things to deal with.
blow to hell	Definitions include: to kill or destroy.
blow to smithereens	Definitions include: to blow up into bits.
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