Polyglot Dictionary

add insult to injury

/æd ˈɪnsʌlt tuː ˈɪndʒəri/

noun C1
N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. para colmo de males

    • And to add insult to injury, it started to rain.

      Y para colmo de males, empezó a llover.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

to top it off

add insult to injury and to top it off are close synonyms for making a bad situation worse, largely interchangeable.

Práctica

1 ¿Qué significa add insult to injury?

2 Completa el espacio en blanco: And to add ___ to injury, it started to rain.

3 ¿Qué gráfico de características corresponde a add insult to injury?

noun

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