make matters worse

idiom

: to make a situation worse

He laughed at her and then, to make matters worse, he accused her of lying!

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To make matters worse, the Porsche dealership giving the valuation supposedly refused to take his Taycan. —

Alistair Charlton, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2024 To make matters worse, the hurricane struck after Parmelee and his wife had just finished rebuilding their back porch, which was destroyed last year during Idalia. —

Daniella Silva, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2024 To make matters worse, postwar rationing and a dwindling supply of ingredients meant recipes shrank and were further simplified. —

David Farley, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2024 And for anyone with chronic constipation, Dr. Chen says that all that straining could just make matters worse—by contributing to what doctors call anismus or dyssynergic defecation. —

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