add insult to injury

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an already unfavorable situation. idiomatic
    — 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.

词形变化

adds insult to injury present,singular,third-person adding insult to injury participle,present added insult to injury participle,past added insult to injury past

词源

Derived from the fables of Phaedrus in the first century CE. The story was of a bald man who swats at a fly which has just landed on his 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?" (quid facies tibi,
Iniuriae qui addideris contumeliam?) The actual wording appears in English from the middle of the 18th century.
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