Which is correct: worse comes to worst or worst comes to worst? The former seems more logical but the latter is what appears in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
idioms - "Worse comes to worst" or "worst comes to worst" - English ...
adjectives - What is the correct usage of 'worse' and 'worst ...
Is worser correct grammatically? I know it seems incorrect, but I stumbled upon the word when reading Hamlet: Oh, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half. Li...
What is the word for a cycle where the cause is made worse by the effect? A very simple example is a decline in fish leads to a decline in coral reef health which then leads to a further decline in fish and so on.
Word for a cycle where the cause is made worse by the effect
Are there idioms or expressions in English that describe going from one bad situation to one that's even worse? I heard "between a rock and hard place" but this describes a dilemma not really a
Are there any expressions that describe going from a bad to a worse ...
0 From the online macmillian dictionary, there are multiple words to describe something becoming worse: worsen VERB to become worse, or to make something worse decline VERB to become less or worse deteriorate VERB to become worse deepen VERB if a bad situation deepens, it becomes worse escalate VERB
Ooh! - You are awful! I don't think I've ever encountered this kind of "slang semantic inversion" with worse, worst. But I'm an ole fart, so I think badder, baddest = better, best just sounds stupid anyway.