Spanish-English translations for echar leña al fuego

• add fuel to the fire
  It is not that we take issue with the line pursued by the rapporteur, but on such a sensitive matter we do not want to add fuel to the fire. No es que nos opongamos a la línea que sigue el ponente, pero no queremos echar leña al fuego en un tema tan delicado.
  Instead of apologizing to his girlfriend he decided to add fuel to the fire.
• add insult to injury
  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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• echar sapos y culebras
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• echarle el ojo a algo o a alguien
• echarle encima alguien a alguien
• echarle agua sucia a alguien