the worse for wear

Compared with control samples, the samples that got the aging treatment emerged looking the worse for wear.

"Coming out of the water I really felt the worse for wear and my wife Mel said my eyes looked completely glazed over, as though I didn't recognise her at all," he added.

Arnold was none the worse for wear and made a pitcher of his special iced tea for us.

Across the road there is a small forest of concrete towers without paint, without windows and with window frames now looking the worse for wear, having been exposed to the elements.

One of the guests, art critic Clive Bell, wrote in his memoir: “About coffee-time, appeared in the midst of the elegantly dressed throng someone dressed otherwise, someone a good deal the worse for wear.”