English-Danish translations for add insult to injury

• føje spot til skade
  17 timer senere ankom jeg hertil, og for at føje spot til skade var min kuffert forsvundet. Seventeen hours later I arrived here. To add insult to injury my suitcase was lost.
  For at føje spot til skade blev jeg endda standset af politiet for at køre for hurtigt på vej hertil i denne uge. To add insult to injury I was even stopped by the police for speeding on my way here this week.
  Godkendelse af ændringsforslag, som nedspiller miljøtruslerne, vil rent ud sagt føje spot til skade. Adoption of amendments that play down the environmental threats will, frankly speaking, add insult to injury.

Definition of add insult to injury

• To further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an unfavourable situation

Examples

• As if the hostile takeover werent enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own

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