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单词 to add insult to injury
释义
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to add insult to injury

C2 said when you feel that someone has made a bad situation worse by doing something else to upset you:

They told me I was too old for the job, and then to add insult to injury, they refused to pay my expenses!

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Deteriorating and making worse

  • a step backwards idiom
  • a turn of the screw idiom
  • add
  • afford
  • aggravate
  • backslide
  • compound
  • decline
  • degrade
  • disintegrate
  • dog
  • downgrade
  • downhill
  • exacerbate
  • regress
  • retrograde
  • retrogress
  • run yourself down
  • seed
  • slip

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