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- idioms - Worse comes to worst or worst comes to worst - English . . .
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
- Which is the correct idiom – When worst comes to worst or When worse . . .
Third, although "worse comes to worse"—the blue line—is still the least popular form of the three its frequency has steadily increased since about 1940, and it is now serious contender in the race for "the correct way to spell the idiom "
- 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
- you could do worse than + -ing - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I think requesting a specific answer from a reputable source regarding the use of an idiomatic construction is inherently unreasonable; yes, "you could do worse than using a simple JScript application" parses grammatically to the meaning intended - which is what a formal source could tell you It's an unusual use of the idiom, but idioms are by definition unusual uses of language I don't know
- 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
- 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
- Is worser correct grammatically? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
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
- 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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