Definition of Add insult to injury

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add insult to injury
hit someone when he is already down, hurt someone even more than he is already hurt

added insult to injury
made a hurtful situation even worse, hurt someone even more than he has been hurt already

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Add insult to injury Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

ENGLISH IDIOMS 2.EDITION
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.

Australian Slang
Add insult to injury
to compound a grievance already committed against someone

English Idioms WM 1.3a
add insult to injury
add another negative, make it worse 
If you say his answer is wrong, and then say he can't understand, you've added insult to injury.


Add insult to injury Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

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Add Insult to Injury
To add insult to injury is a phrase meaning to compound a problem (or set of problems) with further a problem or problems.
Add Insult to Injury is the fourth album by British electronic musicians Add N to (X). It was released on October 162000 by Mute Records. The album is essentially two mini-albums fused together, as half was written and performed by Ann Shenton and Steve Claydon, while the other half was written and performed by Barry 7, with occasional help from Dean Honer from The All Seeing I.

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