If Worse Comes To Worst

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Origin of Phrases - I

If Worse Comes To Worst

This expression comes from the 1597 novel The Discovery of the Knights of the Poste, by Edward Sharpham. "If worst come to the worst, it is but the hiering of a hackney to ryde to London." The first "worst" may have been changed to "worse" by someone thinking of the grammatical progression: bad, worse, worst.