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worse for wear
Idioms and Phrases
Also, the worse for the wear . In poor physical condition owing to long use; also, drunk. For example, This television set is really worse for the wear; we'll have to replace it , or He'd better not drive home; he's definitely the worse for the wear . [c. a.d. 1000] For an antonym, see none the worse for .Example Sentences
"We were a little worse for wear by the time we got to Belgium."
England fans are feeling worse for wear this morning as the Three Lions come home without football after their 2-1 defeat in the Euro 2024 final against Spain.
The fossil looks like a lumpy, rounded rock with a couple of exposed teeth that are a little worse for wear, having been submerged and tumbled along the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for thousands of years before washing up on a beach.
Dental exams on captured or deceased otters also found tool-using otters had relatively little tooth damage, whereas the teeth of their less handy brethren were much worse for wear.
Compared with control samples, the samples that got the aging treatment emerged looking the worse for wear.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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