Idiom: Add Insult to Injury
make a bad situation worse
Examples
- Add insult to injury, it rained.
Key rules
- Add insult to injury means make a bad situation worse by adding another problem or humiliation
- It is used in narratives about a second bad event
- The phrase uses "injury" in the singular
Common mistakes
- Add insult to injuries → Add insult to injury
💡 Tip: Use it when a second bad event makes the first one feel worse.