jury Идиома

add insult to injury

add another negative, make it worse, put your foot in it If you say his answer is wrong, and then say he can't understand, you've added insult to injury.

jury-rig

make a substitute, improvise When we don't have a fuse, Dad jury-rigs one with silver paper.

The jury is still out

Idiom(s): The jury is still out (on sb or sth)

Theme: INDECISION

a decision has not been reached on someone or something; the people making the decision on someone or something have not yet decided.
• The jury is still out on Jane. We don't know what we are going to do about her.
• The jury is still out on the question of building a new parking lot.

Judge, jury and executioner

If someone is said to be the judge, jury, and executioner, it means they are in charge of every decision made, and they have the power to be rid of whomever they choose.

Jury's out

If the jury's out on an issue, then there is no general agreement or consensus on it.

add insult to injury|injury|insult

v. phr. 1. To hurt someone's feelings after doing him harm. He added insult to injury when he called the man a rat after he had already beaten him up. 2. To make bad trouble worse. We started on a picnic, and first it rained, then to add insult to injury, the car broke down.

injury

injury
see add insult to injury.

jury is still out, the

jury is still out, the
No decision has been made; the public's opinion is not known. For example, As for a possible merger, the jury is still out, or The jury is still out on the new spring fashions. This expression alludes to the jury that decides a legal case. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]

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