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piles Pelion on Ossa

piles Pelion on Ossa is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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...

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What is piles Pelion on Ossa the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Piles Pelion on Ossa is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pile Pelion on Ossa.

Words near piles Pelion on Ossa in the dictionary

  1. piles in
  2. piles of crap
  3. piles of shit
  4. piles on
  5. piles out
  6. piles Pelion on Ossa
  7. piles up
  8. pileum
  9. pileup
  10. pileups
  11. pileus

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