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How do you say this phrase?
- worse came to worse - 2,020 results
- worse came to worst - 516 results
- worst came to worse - 88 results
- worst came to worst - 983 results
I’ve included the number of results for each in Google, and it looks like I’ve been saying it wrong (like in the title), but I’m not sure. Do you know?
Update: Comes to, not came to. That was my problem.














Chris McMahon on August 17th, 2004 at 3:55 pm
Worst comes to worst 12,700
loyd on August 17th, 2004 at 7:55 pm
It’s “worse comes to worse” with over 2.7 million results. Thank you. I win.
http://www.google.com/search?q=worse+comes+to+worse&sourceid=firefox&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Dane Carlson on August 18th, 2004 at 6:02 am
Loyd, You might win, but every other phrase was enclosed in quotes. “worse comes to worse” has only 14,200 when similarly encapsulated.