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worse for wear

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the worse for wear
1. damaged from use. The old picnic table is looking the worse for wear, but it should last another year.
2. tired from hard work. After our dog had her puppies, she definitely looked the worse for wear.
See also: wear, worse
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Showers of twigs and leaves fell upon them, and predicament followed predicament, until they emerged on the hilltop the worse for wear but happy and excited.
Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context
It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round shape, hard and much the worse for wear.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
He still wore the fine broadcloth suit in which he had fulfilled his mission, but it was bitterly the worse for wear, daubed with clay and torn with the sharp briers of the wood.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
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