olajat önt a tűzre
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Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]olaj (“oil”) + -at (accusative suffix) + önt (“to pour”) + a (“the”) + tűz (“fire”) + -re (“on”, case suffix), literally “to pour oil on the fire”
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]- (idiomatic) to add fuel to the fire (to worsen an already bad situation)
Conjugation
[edit]- For the verb, see önt.
- The rest of the idiom remains unchanged.