His family motto literally meant "no one insults me without proper punishment"
Adding insult to injury means to make a bad situation worse. It can be where circumstances further hurt the feelings of someone who has been hurt already, or where an already bad situation has even further unfortunate consequences. 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.
The phrase "insult plus injury" refers to a situation where someone not only faces a setback or harm but is also subjected to disrespect or humiliation in the process. It highlights the compounded nature of suffering, where the emotional or psychological pain of insult adds to the physical or situational harm. Essentially, it underscores how one negative experience can be made worse by an additional layer of indignity.
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).
Meaning compounding a negative event, one could also say; "Adding insult to injury" or "to make a bad thing worse"
To make an injury or insult worse, like how salt hurts open wounds. Have you ever cut your anything and walked into the ocean?
well, that's all about opinion...
it means when for example you called someone a bad name or insult them they respong saying '' ive been called worse'' meaning they have had another person call them an even worse name or anything else in other words saying your insult was weak
making it worse by not taking the doctors advice or resting properly
it depends because if one of them gets an injury the one with the injury will be worse but the other one will be better but all together they are the same because they are the same build Hope this helps! :P
The two are not the same - no comparison can be made.
An injury or illness.