xát muối vào vết thương
add insult to injury
Verb
add insult to injury
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Meaning
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Meaning
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Sense 1
Verb
add insult to injury
This phrase means to make a situation that is already bad even worse or more painful than it was before.
vi Những lời nói của bạn đang tiếp tục xát muối vào vết thương của anh ấy.
en Your words are continuing to add insult to his injury.
Parts
擦𪉥𠓨𤵖傷
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Parts
擦𪉥𠓨𤵖傷
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
擦𪉥𠓨𤵖傷
Candidates by syllable
xát
擦（嚓）
muối
𪉥（𪉴）
vào
𠓨
vết
𤵖（𧿭）
thương
傷
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
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