VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Fan the flames

Meaning:

to make a bad feeling or situation become worse or more intense.

Examples:

  • You fan the flames of a civil war.
  • The Winds of the New and totally Unexpected fan the flames.
  • They do nothing but fan the flames of hatred for us.
  • But what you need to do is fan the flames of the revolution.
  • I don't want to, like, fan the flames, you know.
  • The administration's attacks only served to fan the flames of the strike.
  • But the chief executive only managed to fan the flames of indignation.
  • I'm telling you, I really got to fan the flames of this Brick thing.
  • I'm telling you, I really got to fan the flames of this Brick thing.
  • Is this any time to obstruct that dialogue and fan the flames of anti-European paranoia in Serbia?

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