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piled Pelion on Ossa

piled Pelion on Ossa is the simple past and past participle of pile Pelion on Ossa.

Meaning of pile Pelion on Ossa

Verb

pile Pelion on Ossa (third-person singular simple present piles Pelion on Ossa, present participle piling Pelion on Ossa, simple past and past participle piled Pelion on Ossa)

  1. (idiomatic) To make a difficult situation even worse.
    • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already allowed a unanimous consent request for the whistleblower documents to proceed. Today, McConnell piled Pelion on Ossa, announcing that if the House votes to impeach Trump, he would have no choice but to take it up.2019 September 30, Jacob Heilbrunn, “If Mike Pence Becomes President the Neocons Will Stage a Comeback”, in The National Interest, Washington, D.C.: Center for the National Interest, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Questions about piled Pelion on Ossa

What is piled Pelion on Ossa the simple past and past participle of?
Piled Pelion on Ossa is the simple past and past participle of pile Pelion on Ossa.

Words near piled Pelion on Ossa in the dictionary

  1. pileated woodpeckers
  2. piled
  3. piled in
  4. piled on
  5. piled out
  6. piled Pelion on Ossa
  7. piled up
  8. piledrive
  9. piledriven
  10. piledriver
  11. piledrivers

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