add fuel to the fire
add fuel to the fire and add fuel to the flame
Fig. to make a problem worse; to say or do something that makes a bad situation worse; to make an angry person get even angrier. (Alludes to causing a flame to grow larger when fuel is added.)
Shouting at a crying child just adds fuel to the fire.
热门单词
- A creaking door hangs longest.
- affinity for so or sth
- against so's will
- a go at sth
- a jack of all trades is a master of none.
- a kind of sth
- a line on so or sth
- all
- (all) skin and bones
- all the way
- all the way live
- a man of few words
- ambulance chaser
- and all that jazz
- ancient
- and then some
- answer so's purpose
- Anything you say.
- appear to so that...
- apple
- apply to so or sth
