
What Does “fan the flames” mean?
Definition:
to make a bad feeling or situation become worse or more intense.
Example(s)
His racial declarations fanned the flames of the ethinc war.
This idiom is in the nature category.

to make a bad feeling or situation become worse or more intense.
His racial declarations fanned the flames of the ethinc war.
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