“Add fuel to the fire”
Визначення
To make a bad situation worse.
Приклади
Examples
“Yelling at him will only add fuel to the fire.”
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Restore the missing expression using the meaning above. Keep the rest of the sentence unchanged.
Yelling at him will only _____.Compare with the original example
Yelling at him will only add fuel to the fire.
Write a two-line conversation using “Add fuel to the fire”. Make the situation clear enough that a reader can infer the meaning. Then replace the idiom with a plain-English explanation: does your conversation still mean the same thing?
Check the expression in a dictionaryПоширені запитання
- What does "Add fuel to the fire" mean?
- "Add fuel to the fire" means to make a bad situation worse.
- How do you use "Add fuel to the fire" in a sentence?
- Example: "Yelling at him will only add fuel to the fire."
- Should I interpret "Add fuel to the fire" word for word?
- Understand the expression as a whole. Use the definition and example to learn its meaning rather than translating each word separately.