Don't add insult to injury by threatening a lawsuit.
To add insult to injury, they fired most of the workers after the merger.
First they acquired the property on a technicality then they added insult to injury by turning it into a garish dump that lowered the property values for everyone around them.
I wasn't mad that Jacob accidentally ran into me and caused my bloody nose. However, when he sent me the dry cleaning bill for the blood I got all over his shirt, I was angry that he would add insult to injury this way.
Example : "My garage was burned up in a fire, and to add insult to injury, a fire truck sideswiped my new car in the driveway.
I would ask you how you happened to land upside down in the fountain, but I wouldn't want to add insult to injury.
By blaming the innocent, he added to the injury. This is an example using the idiom add insult to injury.
"The idiom 'that just kills' is hardly appropriate at a funeral."
"Throw the book at him" IS a sentence.
An example sentence would be: "Are you pulling my leg? "
It means to add insult to injury, to make someone feel even worse about something they did. The image is of you rubbing salt or lemon juice into their cuts.
The phrase "adding insult to injury " (making a bad situation worse) can be intentional or coincidental. However, the idiom "rubbing salt in the wound" usually means deliberately making something painful even more painful (as salt would be to broken skin).
Watch out IS a sentence - it is a warning, and should have an exclamation mark at the end.
That phrase must be an idiom, because I can't understand what it means."It's raining cats and dogs" is an idiom for "it's raining really hard.""I am learning about idioms in English class."Timmy was the apple of my eye".This sentence is an example of an idiom.
The idiom "keep an eye out for" refers to watching for something or someone. An example of a sentence using the idiom would be: Jeff should be arriving soon, so keep an eye out for him.
To include an idiom in an example sentence, simply incorporate the idiom naturally into the sentence to convey a figurative meaning. For example, "She had a chip on her shoulder" is an idiom meaning she was easily offended or held a grudge.
This isn't an idiom - it means exactly what it says.To add: (verb) to join something to something elseInsult: to speak to or treat with disrespectful scorn and abuseInjury: harmThe phrase means that someone has further abused someone who is already harmed by something.
The more honest a person is, the more he bears the brunt. This is an idiom stating the ordinary man.
Guinea pig is not an idiom. It is a type of small rodent that is often kept as a pet.I have a pet guinea pig.