add salt to injury

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

By analogy with rub salt in the wound.

Verb[edit]

add salt to injury (third-person singular simple present adds salt to injury, present participle adding salt to injury, simple past and past participle added salt to injury)

  1. Eggcorn of add insult to injury. [20th c.]
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