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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