| 单词 | add fuel to the fire/flames |
| 释义 | add fuel to the fire/flamesadd fuel to the fire/flames to make an argument or disagreement worse 火上浇油 Rather than providing a solution, their statements merely added fuel to the fire. 他们的声明不但没有解决问题，反而火上浇油。 Examples from the Corpus add fuel to the fire/flames• It only added fuel to the fire.• Once the process is under way, empire-building adds fuel to the fire, and more fat to the bureaucracy. → add fuel to the fire/flames at add(4) |
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