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Add fuel to the fire

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The idiom add fuel to the fire means to make a bad situation worse. Instead of calming things down, it increases trouble or anger. This idiom is from the literal image of a fire jumping in size when you add extra fuel to it.

Arguing about it only added fuel to the fire.

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