A fork of Rural Dictionary
to contribute more pain to something that has already been damaged
Too add insult to injury the kids laugh at the boy who fell down the steps.
it is said when someone makes a bad situation worse by doing something else to upset you.
first the robbers snatched her chain, and then to add insult to injury , they molested her as well.
It means I'm already hurt so much that if you insult me it wouldn't even matter because I'm already so damaged(injured).
At this point you're adding insult to injury.