add fuel to the fire

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add fuel to the fire 的定义

  1. Also, add fuel to the flames. Worsen an already bad situation, as by increasing anger, hostility, or passion, as in Bill was upset, and your making fun of his mishap just added fuel to the fire. This metaphor dates from Roman times—Livy used it in his history of Rome—and it remains in common use. For similar metaphors, see add insult to injury; fan the flames.

add fuel to the fire 近义词

add fuel to the fire

等同于 add insult to injury

更多add fuel to the fire例句

  1. Then add in all bored people, as well as people whose job it is to report on celebrities.
  2. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
  3. But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
  4. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  5. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  6. Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
  7. Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
  8. All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
  9. "A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
  10. She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.