"go from bad to worse" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: goes from bad to worse [present, singular, third-person], going from bad to worse [participle, present], went from bad to worse [past], gone from bad to worse [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> from bad to worse}} go from bad to worse (third-person singular simple present goes from bad to worse, present participle going from bad to worse, simple past went from bad to worse, past participle gone from bad to worse)
  1. (of a bad situation) to become even worse Related terms: out of the frying pan, into the fire Translations (Translations): fali de sitelo en barelon (Esperanto), mennä entistä pahemmaksi (Finnish), mennä ojasta allikkoon (Finnish), de mal en pis (French), ir de mal en peor (Galician), nāwai i hē ka hē kē atu (Maori), ir de mal a pior (Portuguese), всё хуже и хуже (vsjo xuže i xuže) (Russian), ir de mal a peor (Spanish), ir de mal en peor (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-go_from_bad_to_worse-en-verb-z6BwzdJ0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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