add insult to injury

English - Turkish

Definition of add insult to injury in English Turkish dictionary

(Konuşma Dili) üstüne üstlük yapmak

(deyim) tuz biber ekmek

Related Terms

add insult injury

tüy dikmek

to add insult to injury

tüy dikmek

English - English

Definition of add insult to injury in English English dictionary

To further a loss with mockery or indignity

As if the hostile takeover weren't enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own.

hit someone when he is already down, hurt someone even more than he is already hurt

Related Terms

to add insult to injury

(deyim) 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!.

Hyphenation

add in·sult to in·ju·ry

Turkish pronunciation

äd însʌlt tı încıri

Synonyms

add fuel to the fire, aggravate, exacerbate, heighten, provoke, rub salt in the wound, slap in the face, twist the knife, worsen

Pronunciation

/ˈad ənˈsəlt tə ˈənʤərē/ /ˈæd ɪnˈsʌlt tə ˈɪnʤɜriː/

Etymology

() This was derived from the fables of Phaedrus in the first century AD. The story was of a bald man who swats at a fly which has just bitten him on the head, but instead hits himself on the head. The fly comments, "You wished to kill me for a touch. What will you do to yourself since you have added insult to injury". The actual wording appears in English from the middle of the 18th century.