雪上加霜 xuěshàngjiāshuāng HSK7 exacerbate Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 雪上加霜 xuěshàngjiāshuāng exacerbate idiom to make a bad situation even worse by adding more difficulties or misfortunes; to add insult to injury 就在他失业的时候,妻子又生了重病,真是雪上加霜。 jiù zài tā shīyè de shíhou, qīzi yòu shēng le zhòngbìng, zhēn shì xuěshàngjiāshuāng. Just as he lost his job, his wife fell seriously ill; it was a case of misfortunes never coming alone. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.46 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 2.39 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 6 HSK 3.0 Level 7 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
雪上加霜 xuěshàngjiāshuāng exacerbate idiom to make a bad situation even worse by adding more difficulties or misfortunes; to add insult to injury 就在他失业的时候,妻子又生了重病,真是雪上加霜。 jiù zài tā shīyè de shíhou, qīzi yòu shēng le zhòngbìng, zhēn shì xuěshàngjiāshuāng. Just as he lost his job, his wife fell seriously ill; it was a case of misfortunes never coming alone. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.46 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 2.39 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 6 HSK 3.0 Level 7 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)