雪上加霜

Mandarin

Etymology

literally: to add frost on top of snow

Idiom

雪上加霜 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin xuě shàng jiā shuāng)

1. to add insult to injury

References

• 1985, Jingrong (ed.) Wu, The Pinyin CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY (in Mandarin/English), Beijing, Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, ISBN 0471867969:

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