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Bookmark or Share- idioms - "Worse comes to worst" or "worst comes to worst" - English ...Check out Google's n-gram viewer of all English usage, British English usage, and American English usage, and you get mostly, "Worse comes to Worst" in American, "Worst comes to Worst" in British: goo.gl/N5cfEK You'd have to use different tenses (...were to come to worst), constructions (with/without article) to really nail it down, but those ...
- Are there any expressions that describe going from a bad to a worse ...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 transition. I am looking for an expression that describes someone trying to get out of a bad situation but after much effort, the situation only got worse.
- grammar - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeThere was no way but to comparativize an inherently comparative worse in his situation – try using worse in that sentence. The Bard used the logical worser because that's precisely the semantic needed there. Note the POS: it's a noun formed from an adjective, like "the poorer."
- Words for ordinal 5-point scale from normal to severeWhat are good words for a five-point ordinal scale? The scale should represent increasing severity of disease, where 1 is normal and 5 is severe. I thought of the following words (with their value...
- Common phrases for something that appears good but is actually bad(Maybe you were wanting something much worse than being merely disappointing, but bad is a rather vague word, so it's hard to know for sure. If that's the case, though, I'm sorry about this hollow bunny of an answer.)
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