get the worst

Antonyms

thresh buffet Kos win defeat overcome
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Examples

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps. James Thurber

Assume the worst about people and you get the worst. Ha-Joon Chang

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role. Judy Garland

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal. Captain Beefheart

I do look better on TV. In real life, I look scruffy and pale, and I get the worst kind of recognition... I get the 'Haven't we met somewhere before?' I suggest it might be because I'm on the telly, and they say, 'No, it's definitely not that. Wasn't it at so-and-so's party?' Tom Ward

Alas for those that get the worst of it! Latin Proverb

Words in the phrase

get the worst

Close letter words and terms

get the water get the wind up get the word out get the worst of it get the wrong end of the stick get the wrong idea