{"id":2758,"date":"2014-12-09T15:35:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T11:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2014-12-09T15:35:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T11:35:36","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-add-insult-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-add-insult-to-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words And Expressions \u2013 Add insult to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Add-insult-to-injury.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2759\" alt=\"Stress. Woman stressed\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Add-insult-to-injury-1024x835.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Add-insult-to-injury-1024x835.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Add-insult-to-injury-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Add-insult-to-injury-190x155.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Add-insult-to-injury-280x228.jpg 280w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Add-insult-to-injury-445x363.jpg 445w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Add-insult-to-injury-600x489.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8220;Add insult to injury.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an unfavorable situation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The phrase is an ancient one, even older than its often cited use in the Roman writer Phaedrus&#8217;s fable of the bald man and the fly. In English it was first recorded in 1748.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Add insult to injury.&#8221; What does it mean? To further &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[1041,1042,982,182,234,199,1046,191,166,1044,1043,1045],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-add-insult-to-injury","tag-bad-situation-made-worse","tag-december-2014","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-for-students","tag-for-teachers","tag-indignity","tag-interesting-expression","tag-learn","tag-loss","tag-mockery","tag-shame","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}