Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the following sentence. With the harsh words of the boss, Srujan felt sad, but his colleague's words created insult to injury.
A.attached injury to insult
B.provoked insult to injury
C.added injury to insult
D.added insult to injury✓ Correct
Explanation
The correct idiom is 'added insult to injury', which means to make a bad situation even worse. The colleague's words made things worse for Srujan.
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