get the worst of it
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Consumers, he adds, "get the worst of it".
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
The engineers and conductors that operate the trains routinely get the worst of it because railroads cannot predict exactly when trains, which run around the clock, will be ready to leave.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2023
Matt Jones’s elbow had turned numb by the time the game ended, and he didn’t even get the worst of it.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2016
In the paragraphs that follow, the recipient’s alleged lovers get the worst of it.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014
“Then, if that is the case,” said Jack decisively, “we are likely to get the worst of it for a time, and every man in South Africa will be wanted.”
From With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
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