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English-Language Idioms: Add Insult to Injury

Add insult to injury means deepening a loss with mockery and humiliation, worsening an already unfavorable situation. An idiom is a phrase whose meaning differs from the meaning of the words within it

Insult-InjuryAdd insult to injury

Deepening a loss with mockery and humiliation. Worsening an already unfavorable situation.

Add – to add.

Insult – offense, affront.

Injury – harm, wound.

An idiom is a phrase whose meaning differs from the meaning of the words within it when considered individually and separately.

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