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add insult to injury Fig. Cliché to make a bad situation worse; to hurt the feelings of a person who has already been hurt. First, the basement flooded, and then, to add insult to injury, a pipe burst in the kitchen. My car barely started this morning, and to add insult to injury, I got a flat tire in the driveway. See also: add hurl insults (at someone) and throw insults (at someone) Fig. to direct insults at someone; to say something insulting directly to someone. Anne hurled an insult at Bob that made him very angry. If you two would stop throwing insults, we could have a serious discussion. See also: hurl trade insults (with someone) to take turns with someone in mutual insulting. We traded insults with each other for a while and then settled down to some serious discussions of our differences. See also: trade add insult to injury to make a bad situation even worse for someone by doing something else to upset them First of all he arrived an hour late and then, to add insult to injury, he proceeded to complain about my choice of restaurant. See also: add add insult to injury to make a bad situation worse The airline charged me extra for checking in a bike and then added insult to injury by charging me for a box to pack it in. See also: add How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Jackson then added insult to injury by immediately
hiring Sullivan to his staff.
Then, in 1899, Eliot quite gratuitously added insult to injury when, at
the end of an article on educational reform in the Atlantic Monthly, he
said the Jesuits and Moslems prescribed an unchanging
"ecclesiastical" mode of education absurdly cut off from the
"immense deepening and expanding of human knowledge in the
nineteenth century, and the increasing sense of the individual's
gifts and will power. In an interview with The Advocate seven months after the tragedy,
Addams discussed how the media added insult to injury. |
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