to contribute more pain to something that has already been damaged
Too add insult to injury the kids laugh at the boy who fell down the steps.
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it is said when someone makes a bad situation worse by doing something else to upset you.
first the robbers snatched her chain, and then to add insult to injury , they molested her as well.
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It means I'm already hurt so much that if you insult me it wouldn't even matter because I'm already so damaged(injured).
At this point you're adding insult to injury.
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