RichThesaurus
go from bad to worse
vs
rub salt in someone's wounds
go from bad to worse
verb
to become even worse
rub salt in someone's wounds
verb
To make a painful situation even worse (even with the best of intentions).
How often have the words
go from bad to worse
and
rub salt in someone's wounds
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)