go from bad to worse

English

Verb

go from bad to worse (third-person singular simple present goes from bad to worse, present participle going from bad to worse, simple past went from bad to worse, past participle gone from bad to worse)

1. (of a bad situation) to become even worse

Translations

Translations

• Esperanto: fali de sitelo en barelon
• Finnish: mennä entistä pahemmaksi, mennä ojasta allikkoon
• French: de mal en pis (fr)
• Galician: ir de mal en peor
• Maori: nāwai i hē ka hē kē atu
• Portuguese: ir de mal a pior
• Russian: всё хуже и хуже (vsjo xuže i xuže)
• Spanish: ir de mal a peor, ir de mal en peor (es)

See also

• out of the frying pan, into the fire

Further reading

• “go from bad to worse” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “go from bad to worse”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “go from bad to worse”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “from bad to worse”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.