add insult to injury
Speech parts
1. add insult to injury - Verb
2. add insult to injury - Phrase
Meaning
add insult to injury (third-person singular simple present adds insult to injury, present participle adding insult to injury, simple past and past participle added insult to injury)
(idiomatic) To further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an already unfavourable situation.
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.
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I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.
But this was all the fuel he needed for his conspiratorial theories, and to add insult to injury, he does this all in the name of Jesus, himself a Jew.
And to add insult to injury, they’ll assess you penalties and interest on top.
I was chronically S.A.D., exhausted, over-extended at work, craved solitude at home (but rarely got it) and to add insult to injury, a coworker had publicly dumped and humiliated me.
And to add insult to injury, the Administration cannot defend the move with a straight face.
As a result, the role of sectarian militias increased and, to add insult to injury, the separatist tendencies have been justified more than at any time in the past.