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to make matters worse
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to do something that makes an already bad situation worse
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I should have let well enough alone, but instead I tried to help and only made things worse.
He stifled the desire to argue, knowing it would only make things worse.
His feckless attempts to fix the problem only made things worse.
Her attempt at fixing the computer only made matters worse, leading her colleague to jokingly refer to her as a blithering idiot in technology matters.
His fatuous comments during the meeting only made things worse.
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