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Add insult to injury

verb

Definitions

1.verbTo further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an 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."

Synonyms

heap insult on injurymake matters worseadd salt to injuryrub salt in someone's woundsdo more harm than goodconfoundmake a mockery ofinjurecast aspersionsdeal a bad handoutblunderhave someone there
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