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| Text on Button | INSULT TO INJURY |
| Image Description | Yellow text outlined in gray on a yellow background with an illustration of a male presenting person with light skin and shaggy hair wearing a yellow shirt and a green jacket |
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| Additional Information | The expression “add insult to injury” means to make a bad situation even worse. Its use dates back to Ancient Greece, appearing in Aesop’s fable The Bald Man and the Fly. In the story, a fly bites a man on the head, and the man slaps himself so hard he hurts himself. The fly then mocks the man: “You want to avenge an insect’s sting with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?” |
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Grammartist. (n.d.). Add insult to injury. https://grammarist.com/idiom/add-insult-to-injury/ |
| Catalog ID | AR0474 |