This common expression has a couple of different credits to its origin. One is Livy, the Roman Historian (pictured above). The other credits the poet and dramatist Michael Drayton in 1596. ( source ) Regardless of who uttered the phrase first the fact is it has been around for a very long time! It's meaning is another way to say that something bad is being made worse.

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