Meanings (ES + gloss)
echar leña al fuego • para añadir insulto a la injuria • para añidir afrenta a la lesión • para colmo de males
To further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an already unfavorable 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.
[...] the line crossed over an iron bridge spanning Ludgate Hill itself [...] neatly obliterating any view of St Paul's from Ludgate Circus and Fleet Street. A thousand people had…
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