worse for wear

"We were a little worse for wear by the time we got to Belgium."

England fans are feeling worse for wear this morning as the Three Lions come home without football after their 2-1 defeat in the Euro 2024 final against Spain.

The fossil looks like a lumpy, rounded rock with a couple of exposed teeth that are a little worse for wear, having been submerged and tumbled along the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for thousands of years before washing up on a beach.

Dental exams on captured or deceased otters also found tool-using otters had relatively little tooth damage, whereas the teeth of their less handy brethren were much worse for wear.

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