added to this/that

idiom

—often used informally to introduce a statement about something that makes a thing or situation better, worse, more important, etc.

We were short of money. Added to that, we were lost!

Examples of added to this/that in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The stock quickly added to that and was last above $72 per share, up roughly 27% from where the initial public offering was priced at — $52. —Sean Conlon, CNBC, 14 May 2025

So far, most of the cicadas added to this year’s Cicada Safari map are in western North Carolina, southern Kentucky and parts of Tennessee. —Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 11 May 2025

The White House is still on defense this weekend after The Atlantic Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg says he was added to that Signal conversation by Mr. Trump's National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, where details of the plans for an attack on the Houthis in Yemen were shared with him in real time. —Nbc News, NBC news, 30 Mar. 2025

Revelations like the May 16 one that Ventura is getting a $10 million settlement from LA’s InterContinental Hotel, where security footage from March 2016 captured Combs beating her, added to that narrative. —Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 May 2025