get the worst of it
Example Sentences
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Consumers, he adds, "get the worst of it".
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
But what parts of the country will get the worst of it?
From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2023
Matt Jones’s elbow had turned numb by the time the game ended, and he didn’t even get the worst of it.
From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2016
In the paragraphs that follow, the recipient’s alleged lovers get the worst of it.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2014
It is the sandy valley and the made ground down by the ferries—up to Montgomery Street, in fact—that get the worst of it.
From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
