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雪上加霜
xuě shàng jiā shuāng
What 雪上加霜 means
- idiomto make matters even worse
- to add insult to injury
The characters in 雪上加霜
- 雪xuěsnow; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)
- 上shàng(bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb…
- 加jiāto add; (math) plus; to increase; to augment
- 霜shuāngfrost; white powder or cream spread over a surface; frosting
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