Add insult to injury in Hindi
Meaning, Devanagari spelling and pronunciation
The meaning of “add insult to injury” in Hindi is जले पर नमक छिड़कना, pronounced jale par namak chhiDakana — it is a verb. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.
To further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an already unfavorable situation.
Derived from the fables of Phaedrus in the first century CE. The story was of a bald man who swats at a fly which has just landed on his head, but instead hits himself on the head. The fly comments, "You wished to kill me for a touch. What will you do to yourself since you have added insult to injury?" (quid facies tibi,
Iniuriae qui addideris contumeliam?) The actual wording appears in English from the middle of the 18th century.
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Iniuriae qui addideris contumeliam?) The actual wording appears in English from the middle of the 18th century.
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