go from bad to worse en · VERB
Meanings
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(of a bad situation) To become even worse.
Unhappily, since this was written, mining has gone from bad to worse: some mines are quite given up, others only keep their pumping-engine at work; even the best have closed their poorer workings.
1874 September, “Pilchards and Pilchard-Catchers; or, How We Live in West Penwith”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXVI, number DCCVII, Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, footnote, page 304, column 1:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gone from bad to worse | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| went from bad to worse | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| going from bad to worse | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| goes from bad to worse | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Relateds
worse and worse · out of the frying pan, into the fire
Translations (12)
gl ir de mal en peor (Translations) · fi mennä ojasta allikkoon (Translations) · ru всё хуже и хуже (Translations) · es ir de mal a peor (Translations) · mi nāwai i hē ka hē kē atu (Translations) · fi mennä entistä pahemmaksi (Translations) · pl pogorszyć się (Translations) · es ir de mal en peor (Translations) · eo fali de sitelo en barelon (Translations) · pl pogarszać się (Translations) · pt ir de mal a pior (Translations) · fr aller de mal en pis (Translations)