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from bad to worse from bad to worseBecoming more unpleasant, unacceptable, or difficult than a situation already was. They were already struggling financially, but after Samantha lost her job, things went from bad to worse. If these new laws are passed, the homelessness crisis will go from bad to worse.See also: bad, worsefrom bad to worseUnacceptable 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. See also: bad, worsefrom bad to worseA downhill course; matters are deteriorating. This expression is very old indeed. “He . . . fell from euyll [evil] to worse, and from worse, to worste of all,” wrote Hugh Latimer in a sermon in 1549. Thirty years later, Edmund Spenser (The Shepheardes Calender, 1579) put it more poetically: “From good to badd, and from badde to worse, from worse unto that is worst of all.” See also if worst comes to worst.See also: bad, worse |