| 单词 | worse and worse off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworse and worse off b. worse and worse off: increasingly badly off; in worse and worse circumstances. Cf. worse off adv. ΚΠ 1824 Cobbett's Weekly Reg. 28 Feb. 518/1 We have been getting poorer and poorer, and worse and worse off. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Tom Sawyer (1881) xxx. 239 Let's go back that way! We seem to get worse and worse off all the time. 1934 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Mar. 468/2 Parliament imposed stringent conditions on the railways: if it does not do something more for all classes of road users we shall find ourselves worse and worse off year by year. 1981 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 8 93 With the exception of a minute embryonic elite, the villagers are becoming worse and worse off. 2013 Morning Star (Nexis) 22 Jan. As the years go by the poorest, most marginalised people in Britain get worse and worse off. < as lemmas |
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