đổ thêm dầu vào lửa
add insult to injury
Verb
add insult to injury
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Meaning
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Meaning
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Sense 1
Verb
add insult to injury Discourse, Logic, Comparison & Modality
An idiom used to describe making a bad situation even worse or more intense.
vi Việc anh ta đến lúc này chỉ làm đổ thêm dầu vào lửa.
en His arrival at this moment only adds insult to injury.
Parts
賭添油𠓨焒
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Parts
賭添油𠓨焒
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
賭添油𠓨焒
Candidates by syllable
đổ
賭（𧺂）
thêm
添
dầu
油
vào
𠓨
lửa
焒
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
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Discourse, Logic, Comparison & Modality