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In the sentence I've found in the dictionary while exploring the meaning of the word matter:
To make matters worse, our car broke down.
Couldn't you explain the meaning of it. I'm particular interested in the To make matters worse phrase. I presume it means that we were not being good and the things become even worse when our car broke down.
Correct. Things were already not going well, and then something bad with a likely unrelated cause happened, compounding into a worse situation.
