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': | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "Estimated Time of Arrival." | |
Other terms relating to 'injury': | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "unexplained beer injury", used on medical charts by doctors in the UK. | |
Other terms relating to 'to': | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: See nine to five. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority. | |
| Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio. | |
| Definitions include: to revisit one's past. | |
| Definitions include: to go back to the beginning. | |
| Definitions include: extreme; "all out". | |
| Definitions include: to be vastly superior. | |
| Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else. | |
| Definitions include: to be unintelligible. | |
| Definitions include: to do. | |
| Definitions include: more important things to deal with. | |
| Definitions include: to kill or destroy. | |
| Definitions include: to blow up into bits. | |
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