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1. Adding insult to injury; rubbing salt in the wounds; making a bad situation worse. > As if the Eurozone crisis wasn't hard enough on the public, the politicians' apparent lack of concern has been twisting the knife. Source: ecdict

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twisting adding apparent bad concern crisis enough hard injury insult knife lack making politicians public rubbing salt situation worse wounds

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