add insult to injury
(fazer
algo que já está ruim ficar pior, aumentar o tamanho do problema)
The store didn’t have the computer I had ordered by phone and, to add insult to injury, the one they wanted to sell me, was
scratched. = ...e para aumentar o problema o que eles queriam me vender estava
riscado.
To add
insult to injury, a little while after she left her husband’s funeral, she learnt
that her little sister had been in an accident.
= Para
piorar a situação, um pouco
depois que ela saiu do funeral do marido…
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Minidicionário de expressões e phrasal verbs da Língua Inglesa
