get the worst of it
Example Sentences
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Consumers, he adds, "get the worst of it".
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
The engineers and conductors that operate the trains routinely get the worst of it because railroads cannot predict exactly when trains, which run around the clock, will be ready to leave.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2023
But while rich countries like the United States and Britain fret about slowing growth and rising prices, if stagflation makes its long-dreaded return, it will be poorer nations that get the worst of it.
From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2022
In the paragraphs that follow, the recipient’s alleged lovers get the worst of it.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2014
I ain't so much on talk as some fellers with slippery tongues, neither is any one going to get the worst of it as they do what deals with some of them slippery talkers.
From Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter by Tileston, Merrill
