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71Add on — Extension (jeu vidéo) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Extension. Une extension ou un addiciel (add on en anglais) est un supplément d un jeu vidéo, c’est à dire des niveaux, des équipements, des armes, des scénarios ou campagnes supplémentaires …
72add fuel to fire — verb To inflame a situation, to make a situation worse. [...] and that he ſhould never ceaſe to lament the loſs of me, they, to add fuel to fire, under a feigned ſolicitude to alleviate his majeſtys diſquiet, began to praiſe with the utmoſt… …
73add up to — verb To have a particular effect. Increasing prices and frozen wages add up to hardship for the poorer families …
74add insult to injury — verb To further a loss with mockery or indignity. As if the hostile takeover werent enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own …
75add fuel to the fire — verb To worsen a conflict between people; to inflame an already tense situation [1794, February 25] ... While the French slaves were in a state of convulsion, it was very extraordinary to wish; by pouring in fresh slaves among them, to add fuel… …
76add up — Synonyms and related words: add up to, aggregate, aggregate to, amount to, be OK, be correct, be just right, be right, cast up, cipher up, come, come to, comprise, compute, contain, count up, detail, figure up, foot up, inventory, itemize, mount… …
77add — [14] Etymologically, add means simply ‘put to’. Its source is Latin addere, a compound verb formed from the prefix ad ‘to’ and the stem dere ‘put’ (which is related to English do). Its original meaning in English was simply ‘join one thing to… …
78add\ insult\ to\ injury — v. phr. 1. To hurt someone s feelings after doing him harm. He added insult to injury when he called the man a rat after he had already beaten him up. 2. To make bad trouble worse. We started on a picnic, and first it rained, then to add insult… …
79add fuel to the flames — If you add fuel to the flames, you do or say something that makes a difficult situation even worse. He forgot their wedding anniversary, and his apologies only added fuel to the flames …
80add insult to injury — to make a bad situation even worse for someone by doing something else to upset them. First of all he arrived an hour late and then, to add insult to injury, he proceeded to complain about my choice of restaurant …
