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In short, it means to make things worse. Fire needs oxygen, which is in air, so supplying it with more oxygen would only make things worse. A similar expression is feeding the fire.
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What is the idiom meaning of to be?
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
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Teasing you .
