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add fuel to the fire	To worsen a conflict between people; to inflame an already tense situation.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
add fuel to fire	To inflame a situation, to make a situation worse.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Add Fuel to the Fire	To boost up one’s anger or trouble more with your deeds or words, when he/she is already facing worst situation	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fuel up	To eat hurriedly in order to do something more interesting.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pour fuel on the fire	Synonym of add fuel to the fire	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
dirt-poor	In a condition of extreme poverty.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
escape fire	A fuel-free safe spot, consisting of burning grass as a method of defense against a forest fire.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
hand-to-mouth	Involving immediate consumption with no provision for the future; having barely enough to survive, being close to poverty	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
out of gas	Lacking fuel.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
spark spread	The difference between the cost of the fuel required to produce a unit of electricity, and the price of that same unit of electricity.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
tank up	to fill a vehicle with fuel.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
burn out	To extinguish due to lack of fuel.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
Keep the Wolf from the Door	To avoid circumstances leading to poverty and starvation	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
rags to riches	In a biographical context, from poverty to exceptional wealth.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
笑貧不笑娼	lit. despising poverty but not prostitution	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
ad egestatem, ad inopiam (summam omnium rerum) redigi	to be reduced to (abject) poverty.	Rate it: (2.50 / 2 votes)
aggiungere esca al fuoco	to add fuel to fire	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
aliquem ex paupere divitem facere	to raise a man from poverty to wealth.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
c'est jeter de l'huile sur le feu	It is adding fuel to the fire (flames).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fail at life	To be or become trapped in poverty, or in a situation where someone is not doing anything productive with their lives; to become a loser.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
first things first	Deal with matters of highest priority first; deal with matters in logical sequence.1922, H. G. Wells, The Secret Places of the Heart, ch.4,"First things first," said Sir Richmond. If we set about getting fuel sanely, if we do it as the deliberate, co-operative act of the whole species, then it follows that we shall look very closely into the use that is being made of it.1999, Frank Pellegrini, "House Republicans Quell Mutiny Over Tax Bounty," Time, 23 Jul.,Judging by the polls	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
gas up	To fill the gas tank of an automobile with fuel.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
in egestate esse, versari	to live in poverty, destitution.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
inopia verborum	poverty of expression.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
jeter de l'huile sur le feu	add fuel to the fire	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
keep the wolf from the door	To ward off poverty or hunger.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
land poor	In a condition of poverty as a result of inability to meet tax payments or other financial requirements for one's land holdings.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mettre de l'huile sur le feu	add fuel to fire	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
oil burner	A machine that uses oil as its fuel.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
oil burner	A heating device which burns fuel oil; an oil furnace.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pauvreté n'est pas vice	Poverty is no crime.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
petrol pump	car fuel dispenser	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
point of no return	The point in an aircraft's flight when there is insufficient fuel to reverse direction and return to the place of origin.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Poor as a Church Mouse	To be in very poor condition, poverty- stricken	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pôr lenha na fogueira	to add fuel to fire	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
quand il n'y a pas de foin au râtelier, les chevaux se battent	When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
qui paye ses dettes s'enrichit	Debt is the worst kind of poverty.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
run on fumes	To operate a vehicle that is low on fuel.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vitam in egestate degere	to live in poverty, destitution.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
笑貧不笑娼	the notion in society that it's better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's scruples than to suffer poverty	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)