if the worst comes to the worst
(also if worse comes to worst)Definition
› if a bad situation becomes even worse: If the worst comes to the worst, we can ask Dad to send us some more money.
(Definition of if the worst comes to the worst from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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if conjunction WHETHER
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if I were you idiom
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if n UNCERTAIN SITUATION
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if only idiom
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