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add salt to injury

add salt to injury verb: eggcorn of add insult to injury.

Verb

add salt to injury (third-person singular simple present adds salt to injury, present participle adding salt to injury, simple past and past participle added salt to injury)

  1. Eggcorn of add insult to injury.

Forms of add salt to injury

third-person singular presentadds salt to injury
present participleadding salt to injury
past participleadded salt to injury
pastadded salt to injury

Origin of add salt to injury

Blend of add insult to injury + rub salt in the wound.

Questions about add salt to injury

What does add salt to injury mean?
Add salt to injury means eggcorn of add insult to injury.
What part of speech is add salt to injury?
Add salt to injury is a verb.
What is the past tense of add salt to injury?
The past tense of add salt to injury is added salt to injury.

Words near add salt to injury in the dictionary

  1. add insult to injury
  2. add oil
  3. add on
  4. add one's twopenn'orth
  5. add ons
  6. add salt to injury
  7. add to the list
  8. add up
  9. add up to
  10. add value
  11. add value machine

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