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雪上加霜. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
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Chinese
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snow
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up; on; on top up; on; on top; upon; first; previous or last; upper; higher; above; previous; to climb; to go into; to go up
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to add; plus
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frost
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| trad. (雪上加霜)
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雪
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上
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加
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霜
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| simp. #(雪上加霜)
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雪
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上
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加
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霜
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| Literally: “to add frost on top of snow”.
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Pronunciation
Idiom
雪上加霜
- (figurative) to make a bad situation worse; to add insult to injury; to rub salt in the wound
Descendants
Korean
Noun
雪上加霜 • (seolsanggasang) (hangeul 설상가상)
- Hanja form? of 설상가상 (“making a bad situation worse”).