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from bad to worse



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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 .
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Things went from bad to worse a few weeks later, when he “slipped on a piece of paper,” he said.

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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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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