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• add insult to injury — 1. To treat an affronted person with further indignity 2. To make matters worse • • • Main Entry: ↑insult * * * add insult to injury phrase to make a bad situation even worse, especially by treating someone very badly To add insult to injury,… …   Useful english dictionary

• add insult to injury — {v. phr.} 1. To hurt someone s feelings after doing him harm. * /He added insult to injury when he called the man a rat after he had already beaten him up./ 2. To make bad trouble worse. * /We started on a picnic, and first it rained, then to add …   Dictionary of American idioms

• add insult to injury — {v. phr.} 1. To hurt someone s feelings after doing him harm. * /He added insult to injury when he called the man a rat after he had already beaten him up./ 2. To make bad trouble worse. * /We started on a picnic, and first it rained, then to add …   Dictionary of American idioms

• Add Insult to Injury — To add insult to injury is a phrase meaning to compound a problem (or set of problems) with a further problem or problems. Infobox Album | Name = Add Insult to Injury Type = Album Artist = Add N to (X) Released = October 16, 2000 Recorded = ???… …   Wikipedia

• add\ insult\ to\ injury — v. phr. 1. To hurt someone s feelings after doing him harm. He added insult to injury when he called the man a rat after he had already beaten him up. 2. To make bad trouble worse. We started on a picnic, and first it rained, then to add insult… …   Словарь американских идиом

• add insult to injury — verb To further a loss with mockery or indignity. As if the hostile takeover werent enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own …   Wiktionary

• 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 …   New idioms dictionary

• add insult to injury — add another negative, make it worse, put your foot in it    If you say his answer is wrong, and then say he can t understand, you ve added insult to injury …   English idioms

• add — W1S1 [æd] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(put with something else)¦ 2¦(count)¦ 3¦(increase)¦ 4¦(say more)¦ 5¦(give a quality)¦ 6 add(ed) to that/this 7 add weight to something 8 to add insult to injury 9 add fuel to the fire/flames …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• add — [ æd ] verb *** 1. ) transitive to put something with another thing or group of things: When the sauce is thick, add the cheese. add something to something: They ve added two major companies to their impressive list of clients. Here s another… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Add N to (X) — Жанр Электронная музыка, электроклэш, пост рок Годы 1994–2003 Страна …   Википедия