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- What is For the better or worse? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
The idiom is "for better or worse" - is it this you mean? If so, it just expresses this: If a situation exists or happens for better or for worse, it exists or happens whether its results are good or bad See here This comes from an idiom "for the better worse", which means "to produce improvement decline" If this is not what you are looking for, there is a phrase "for the better part
- worse vs. less better - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What is the right way to convey the meaning that I want to say? Your job is worse than mine, so I am not going to quit my job Is there a better choice to say this? Should I use less better than
- Single word to describe make something worse
Good option, but I think it needs to be pointed out that one does not deteriorate a bad situation, the situation does that So this does not mean "make something worse", but rather "become worse"
- adjectives - What is the correct usage of worse and worst . . .
The way I understand it, 'worse' is for comparisons, and 'worst' is the superlative But more and more I see people using them in the exact opposite positions That's the worse thing I've ever seen This can't get any worst This specific thing seems to occur a lot more than any mistakes, so I'm wondering what's up with this
- Use of The better? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
So out of two alternative it is correct to say that one is the better and the other is the worse Isn't one the best out of two and the second the worst out of the two?
- From worse to better - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
1 I have a list of similar items (e g , book titles), where some items are better worse then others, and arranged from worse items (it the top of list) to better ones (in the bottom) This list should have a title - I think about "From worse to better" - but this phrase have suspiciously few mentions in Google And it doesn't sound really good
- Better than the next? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
However, if taken literally, I find the meaning very negative - if the current thing is better than the next, then the next thing must be worse, so things would just keep getting worse and worse How do you explain this phrase idiom?
- Is there a name for letting something get worse until it is so bad it . . .
It may pertain to the maxim " the worse, the better ", often attributed to Vladimir Lenin in the years before the Communist Revolution There is a related philosophical idea: the modern (Hegelian Marxist) use of the term dialectic Hegel's idea was that each concept or position, theoretical as well as practical, continues to develope until it becomes useless and corrupt - entangled in its own
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