if worst comes to worst

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1. Also, if worse comes to worst. In the least favorable situation, if the worst possible outcome occurs. For example, If worst comes to worst and the budget is not approved, the government will shut down, or Go ahead and go to school with a cold; if worse comes to worst the teacher will send you home. This expression is nearly always followed by a solution. [Late 1500s]

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if worst comes to worst

Meanwhile, all I'm hearing is people telling me to quit worrying about it because it's all over now, and anyway, if worst comes to worst, we can always go hide over there in that garage.

From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2020

And, if worst comes to worst on their German front, they have another Russia between the Urals and the Pacific, bigger than all of European Russia and the U.S. combined.

From Time Magazine Archive

It can go as my vacation, if worst comes to worst.

From Flood Tide by Sara Ware Bassett

"Well," said Mrs. Scudder, "if worst comes to worst, and he will do it, I, for one, shall stand by him to the last."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 by Various

Well, if worst comes to worst, I guess they’ll keep us all night.”

From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie

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