He added insult to injury when he called the man a rat after he had already beaten him up.
We started on a picnic, and first it rained, then to add insult to injury, the car broke down.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
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 — When people add insult to injury, they make a bad situation even worse … The small dictionary of idiomes
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 — When people add insult to injury, they make a bad situation even worse. (Dorking School Dictionary) *** To add insult to injury means to make a bad situation worse by harming or upsetting someone you have already harmed in some other… … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
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 — to make a bad situation even worse, especially by treating someone very badly To add insult to injury, after cancelling our flight, they asked us to pay extra! … English 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
