go 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.
   • 1874 September, “Pilchards and Pilchard-Catchers; or, How We Live in West Penwith”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXVI, number DCCVII, Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, footnote, page 304, column 1:

     Unhappily, since this was written, mining has gone from bad to worse: some mines are quite given up, others only keep their pumping-engine at work; even the best have closed their poorer workings.

• out of the frying pan, into the fire
• worse and worse

• “go from bad to worse” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “go from bad to worse”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “go from bad to worse”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “from bad to worse”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.