added insult to injury

Verb

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

1. (idiomatic) To further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an already unfavorable situation.
   • As if the hostile takeover weren't enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own.

   Synonyms:

   heap insult on injury, make matters worse