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if worst comes to worst

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if (the) worst comes to (the) worst
Prov. in the worst possible circumstances; if the worst possible thing should happen. We should be able to catch the four-thirty train, but if the worst comes to the worst, we could get a taxi and still get into town on time. Of course, I hope that your wife's health recovers, but if worst comes to worst, I want you to know that we'd be happy to have you stay with us.
See also: come, if, worst

if worst comes to worst
if the least wanted situation develops If worst comes to worst, we can ask Dad to send us some more money.
See also: come, if, worst


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If worst comes to worst, he noted, ``in a pinch you can still call someone on their cell phone; you can still send e-mail from your desktop.
It's helping to preserve and exalt the single visitation of genius, jazz, that may, if worst comes to worst and many of us think it will, stand before some spectral court as justification for there having been an America at all.
``I paid $250 each for them, so if worst comes to worst I will go and take my family.
 
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