单词 | to come to the worse |
释义 | > as lemmasto come to (also off with) the worse ΚΠ 1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements i. xxi. 95 As truth got euer the vpper hand,..so the brochers and vpholders of falshood came euer to the worse. 1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. (1642) i. i. xvi. 57 His owne side came to the worse, doing more scath to themselves, than to their enemies. 1674 C. Cotton tr. B. de Montluc Commentaries iii. 121 Skirmishes..so disadvantageous to us, that we always came off with the worse. 1700 tr. G. de Courtilz de Sandras French Spy i. 13 The populace..flock'd together to the assistance of their Country-men, who were like to come to the worse, several of their Companions being slain by the Portugeses. 1832 T. Carlyle tr. G. Sauerteig in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 256 Our mind is divided in twain: there is contest; wherein that which is weaker must needs come to the worse. 1891 W. Morris & E. Magnusson tr. Story Howard the Halt 65 Meseemeth they have come to the worse, losing many of their men and honour withal. < as lemmas |
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