Quick Words - 'Add Insult to Injury'

Hello everyone and welcome to Maple Leaf ESL. My name is Andrew and thank you for joining me here in the classroom today for today's fast

words

lesson. I want to take a look at the expression to add

insult

to

injury

. Well, this is a common expression and one that you will definitely hear, okay, if we look at the definition here to make a bad situation worse, usually when you have some kind of bad situation and then another bad thing happens, this is when we say it adds

insult

to

injury

, okay, let's see. in some examples the first one here is a rope, first the airline lost my suitcase and then to add insult to injury they returned it to me damaged after they found it fine so if we think about it correctly they lost my suitcase ok , now this is a bad situation, right, I've been an inconvenience, they may never find my things again.

I don't know, it's a bad situation, okay, but when they found the suitcases they returned them to me damaged, so now this is basically the insult. For starters, we are adding to the damage of having lost our suitcases, okay, second situation, my girlfriend suddenly broke up with me the other day and, to make matters worse, she started dating my best friend, okay, so it was enough bad that. She suddenly broke up with me, but to make matters worse, she started dating my best friend, so we usually use it like that. Think about this. I lost my wallet and, to make matters worse, I'm missing the bus right now.

I'm going to be late for school or work or whatever, so the bad situation of losing my wallet got worse when I also missed the bus, okay, so we use that way, okay, if you think you can form a sentence using this expression, why not? Try writing it in the comments section below. Thank you so much for joining me here at Maple Leaf ESL and I look forward to seeing you next time.