add fuel to the fire
UK also add fuel to the flames to make an argument or bad situation worse:
The discovery that the government was aware of the cover-up has really added fuel to the fire.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- ascending
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- increment
- pile
- rack
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
- supersize
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