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Today’s Idiomatic Expression

Add fuel to the fire

I was already angry with you, and when you forgot to pick me up, that really added fuel to the fire.

Meaning: to make a bad situation worse; to do or say something that causes more trouble, makes someone angrier.

Origin: Thousands of years ago the famous Roman historian Livy used this expression. If you pour water on a fire, it goes out. But if you put fuel (like coal or wood) on a fire, you make it burn hotter and brighter. If "fire" represents any kind of trouble, then anything you do to make that trouble worse is "fuel." A similar expression is "fan the flames."

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