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from bad to worse
Idioms and Phrases
Unacceptable and getting more so, on a steady downward course. For example, Mary's grades have gone from bad to worse . [Mid-1500s] Also see if worst comes to worst .Example Sentences
With six defeats in their past 10 games, a loss to their biggest rivals and closer to the relegation zone than the top four, things are going from bad to worse for Tottenham Hotspur.
It quickly went from bad to worse for Carpenter, who was the only Sale player not in the attacking line when Stormers stole possession deep inside their own territory before firing a box kick to relieve pressure.
The England number eight had three scores just before the hour as the Stormers went down to 13 as Seabelo Senatla was shown a yellow while Ungerer was still off - their night going from bad to worse as Angelo Davids was also sin-binned in the 68th minute.
Things went from bad to worse a few weeks later, when he “slipped on a piece of paper,” he said.
As things go from bad to worse in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of Poland, the Kurcs, an upper-middle-class and not at all homogeneous extended Jewish family, take divergent paths — paths that will sometimes meet again — to avoid being discovered, captured and/or murdered.
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