Add Fuel to the Fire
What it means
Do or say the thing that makes an already bad situation considerably worse.
Where it comes from
Horace has a line about adding oil to the furnace, so the complaint is around two thousand years old. Oil was the accelerant to hand, and open fires were the household hazard.
The puzzle it came from
Add Fuel to the Fire was the answer to the Phrasicle of May 25, 2025. The clue read ____ ____ to the ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.
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go
private
jet
fuel
tank
wild
fire
pit
bull
market
value
add
on
point
blank
city
view
count
down
payment
Phrasicle: Add Fuel to the Fire