Which is correct: worse comes to worst or worst comes to worst? The former seems more logical but the latter is what appears in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
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Which is correct: worse comes to worst or worst comes to worst? The former seems more logical but the latter is what appears in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
The expression should be:
If the worst comes to the worst, …
It means “if the worst thing that can happen does happen…”.
Contracting it without the definite articles doesn’t seem to me to justify ‘worse comes to worst’; it should still be ‘worst comes to worst’.